Quotes by Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

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If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that ma — Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at l — Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign. — Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it — Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
Science is only a Latin word for knowledge — Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
As science advances, there seems to be less and less for God to do. It's a big universe, of course, so He, She, or It, c — Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
A new concept of god: “something not very different from the sum total of the physical laws of the universe; that is, gr — Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship. — Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. — Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
We make our purpose. — Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many differe — Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel smal — Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God