Favorites Quote's
Author
Topic's
Blog
Ads Place 1222
We Live On A Mote Of Dust Suspended In A Sunbeam
-Carl Sagan
Please Wait....
Translating....
Select Image
Download as Image
English
Spanish
French
German
Hindi
Chinese
We Live On A Mote Of Dust
Carl Sagan
We Live On A Mote Of Dust Suspended In A Sunbeam
Views: 2
Topic
Dust
Sunbeams
Suspended
More From Carl Sagan
Many Statements About God Are Confidently Made By Theologians On Grounds That Today At Least Sound Specious. Thomas Aquinas Claimed To Prove That God Cannot Make Another God, Or Commit Suicide, Or Make A Man Without A Soul, Or Even Make A Triangle Whose Interior Angles Do Not Equal 180 Degrees. But Bolyai And Lobachevsky Were Able To Accomplish This Last Feat (on A Curved Surface) In The Nineteenth Century, And They Were Not Even Approximately Gods.
Suicide
Atheist
Men
My Deeply Held Belief Is That If A God Of Anything Like The Traditional Sort Exists, Our Curiosity And Intelligence Is Provided By Such A God. We Would Be Unappreciative Of That Gift If We Suppressed Our Passion To Explore The Universe And Ourselves.
God
Passion
Religion
Every Star May Be A Sun To Someone.
Stars
May
Sun
A Central Lesson Of Science Is That To Understand Complex Issues (or Even Simple Ones), We Must Try To Free Our Minds Of Dogma And To Guarantee The Freedom To Publish, To Contradict, And To Experiment. Arguments From Authority Are Unacceptable.
Freedom
Science
Simple
There Are Many Instances In Science, Where Those Closest To The Intricacies Of The Subject Have A More Highly Developed Sense Of Its Intractability Than Those At Some Remove. On The Other Hand, Those At Too Great A Distance May, I Am Well Aware, Mistake Ignorance For Perspective.
Mistake
Distance
Ignorance
Ads Place 3
Ads Place 2
Trending Author
Gail Simmons
Arthur Miller
Belle Boyd
Richard Rorty
David Niven
Michael Ondaatje
Category
Information
Ads Place 4
Ads Place 5