Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole.

Carl Sagan

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Carl Sagan

When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive.

Carl Sagan

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

Carl Sagan

I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated.

Carl Sagan

Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

Carl Sagan

There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered among us. So Einstein is revered not just because he made so many fundamental contributions to science, but because he found an imperfection in the fundamental contribution of Isaac Newton.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

Carl Sagan

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science

Becca Fitzpatrick

What I really wanted was the impossible.

B. J. Novak

Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.

C. S. Lewis

What one must not do is to rule out the supernatural as the one impossible explanation.

Antoine Lavoisier

It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed.

Nabil Sha'ath

I think there are still problems, particularly on Jerusalem and refugees. But I don't see this now as something that is impossible to solve,

Russell Schweickart

That (will be) an impossible task, I'll tell you right now.

Enrique Bolanos

It is impossible to think you could evacuate 50,000 people between now and 6 in the morning. We don't have the means to do it, ... We are doing everything humanly possible.

Paul Browne

It is impossible to say how (achieving that) will play out worldwide.

Rosette Lerias

It is impossible to relocate everyone. This is a lesson for us but a lesson to which we have no permanent solutions.