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| Carl Sagan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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-------------------------------------------------- "The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. And yet our species is young and curious and brave and shows much promise. In the last few millennia we have made the most astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the Cosmos and our place within it, explorations that are exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is a prerequisite to survival. I believe our future depends on how well we know this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky." (Carl Sagan quote from the Book Cosmos) -------------------------------------------------- | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Richard Feynman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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-------------------------------------------------- "During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered for separating the ideas -- which was to try one to see if it worked, and if it didn't work, to eliminate it. This method became organized, of course, into science. And it developed very well, so that we are now in the scientific age. It is such a scientific age, in fact, that we have difficulty in understanding how witch doctors could ever have existed, when nothing that they proposed ever really worked -- or very little of it did. But even today I meet lots of people who sooner or later get me into a conversation about UFO's, or astrology, or some form of mysticism, expanded consciousness, new types of awareness, ESP, and so forth. And I've concluded that it's not a scientific world." ("Surely You're Joking" Quote) -------------------------------------------------- | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Human Foot-Steps on the Moon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
-------------------------------------------------- | "We humans have set foot on another world in a place called "The Sea of Tranquility", an astonishing achievement for creatures such as we, whose earliest foot-steps, some three million years old, are preserved in the volcanic ash of East Africa. We have walked far. (Cosmos TV Series Carl Sagan Quote) --------------------------------------------------
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