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„Der Stickstoff in unserer DNA, das Kalzium in unseren Zähnen, das Eisen in unserem Blut und der Kohlenstoff in unseren Apfelkuchen wurden im Inneren kollabierender Sterne hergestellt. Wir sind aus Sternen gemacht.“

Carl Sagan

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„Ein Blick in ein Buch und du hörst die Stimme einer anderen Person, vielleicht jemand, der seit 1.000 Jahren tot ist. Lesen ist wie eine Reise durch die Zeit.“

Carl Sagan

„In vielen Kulturen ist die übliche Antwort, dass ein Gott oder Götter das Universum aus dem Nichts erschaffen haben. Aber wenn wir diese Frage mutig weiterverfolgen wollen, müssen wir natürlich die nächste Frage stellen: Woher kam Gott? Wenn wir entscheiden, dass dies eine unbeantwortbare Frage ist, warum nicht einen Schritt speichern und daraus schließen, dass der Ursprung des Universums eine unbeantwortbare Frage ist? Oder, wenn wir sagen, dass Gott immer existiert hat, warum nicht einen Schritt retten und daraus schließen, dass das Universum immer existiert hat? Dass es keiner Schöpfung bedarf, war es schon immer hier. Das sind keine einfachen Fragen. Die Kosmologie stellt uns vor die tiefsten Geheimnisse, Fragen, die einst nur in Religion und Mythos behandelt wurden.“

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„Genau die gleiche Technologie kann zum Guten und zum Bösen eingesetzt werden. Es ist, als ob es einen Gott gäbe, der zu uns sagte: Ich habe zwei Möglichkeiten vor Ihnen: Sie können Ihre Technologie nutzen, um sich selbst zu zerstören oder Sie zu den Planeten und Sternen zu tragen. Es liegt an dir.“

Carl Sagan

„Im Bewusstsein des Menschen erkennt die Natur sich selbst“

Carl Sagan

Quelle: http://www.carlsagan.com Übersetzer: Guido Biermann)
Original engl.: "We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself."

„Betrachten Sie noch einmal diesen Punkt. Das ist hier. Das ist zu Hause. Das sind wir. Darauf hat jeder, den du liebst, jeder, den du kennst, jeder, von dem du jemals gehört hast, jeder Mensch, der jemals war, sein Leben gelebt.“

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Carl Sagan Zitate und Sprüche

„Es gibt naive Fragen, langweilige Fragen, schlecht formulierte Fragen, Fragen, die nach unzureichender Selbstkritik gestellt werden. Aber jede Frage ist ein Aufschrei, die Welt verstehen zu wollen. Es gibt keine dummen Fragen.“

Carl Sagan

Der Drache in meiner Garage oder Die Kunst der Wissenschaft, Unsinn zu entlarven. Köln, 2000. ISBN 3-426-26912-0. Übersetzer: Michael Schmidt
"There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question" - The Demon-Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark. Ballantine Books 1996. p. 323

Über Ehe , Frage , Verstehen

„Es zählt nicht, was plausibel klingt, was wir gerne glauben würden, was ein oder zwei Zeugen behaupten, sondern nur, was durch stichhaltige Beweise belegt wird, die gründlich und kritisch geprüft wurden. Außergewöhnliche Behauptungen erfordern außergewöhnlich starke Beweise.“

Carl Sagan

Unser Kosmos (Fernsehserie), Folge 12: "Eine galaktische Enzyklopädie"
Original engl.: "What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

Über Glauben , Stark

„Ich betrachte mich nicht als religiöse Person im üblichen Sinne, aber manche Höhen haben einen religiösen Aspekt. Die erhöhte Sensibilität in allen Bereichen gibt mir ein Gefühl der Verbindung mit meiner Umgebung, sowohl lebendig als auch leblos. Manchmal überkommt mich eine Art existenzielle Wahrnehmung des Absurden und ich sehe mit schrecklicher Sicherheit die Heuchelei und Haltung von mir und meinen Mitmenschen.“

Carl Sagan

Sinn , Gefühl

„Sollten wir uns daher in den Kopf setzen, unseren Apfelkuchen von Grund auf selber zu machen, müßten wir erst das Universum erfinden.“

Carl Sagan

Unser Kosmos, München 1991, ISBN 3-426-04053-0, Kapitel 9, Seite 230. Übersetzer: Siglinde Summerer, Gerda Kurz
Original engl.: "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

Über Universum

Carl Sagan: Zitate auf Englisch

“Humans may crave absolute certainty; they may aspire to it; they may pretend, as partisans of certain religions do, to have attained it. But the history of science — by far the most successful claim to knowledge accessible to humans — teaches that the most we can hope for is successive improvement in our understanding, learning from our mistakes, an asymptotic approach to the Universe, but with the proviso that absolute certainty will always elude us.”

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Carl Sagan

Quelle: The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995), Ch. 2 : Science and Hope, p. 28

“It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls.”

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Carl Sagan buch Pale Blue Dot

Quelle: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994), p. 43

“Appeal to ignorance — the claim that whatever has not been proved false must be true, and vice versa (e. g. There is no compelling evidence that UFOs are not visiting the Earth; therefore UFOs exist — and there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. Or: There may be seventy kazillion other worlds, but not one is known to have the moral advancement of the Earth, so we're still central to the Universe.) This impatience with ambiguity can be criticized in the phrase: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”

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Referring to an aphorism of Martin Rees. (see Misattributed below)
Quelle: The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995), Ch. 12 : The Fine Art of Baloney Detection, p. 221

“Ann Druyan suggests an experiment: Look back again at the pale blue dot of the preceding chapter. Take a good long look at it. Stare at the dot for any length of time and then try to convince yourself that God created the whole Universe for one of the 10 million or so species of life that inhabit that speck of dust. Now take it a step further: Imagine that everything was made just for a single shade of that species, or gender, or ethnic or religious subdivision. If this doesn't strike you as unlikely, pick another dot. Imagine it to be inhabited by a different form of intelligent life. They, too, cherish the notion of a God who has created everything for their benefit. How seriously do you take their claim?”

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Carl Sagan buch Pale Blue Dot

Quelle: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994), p. 11

“That it will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet.”

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Carl Sagan buch Contact

Quoting Emily Dickinson; The Poems of Emily Dickinson http://books.google.gr/books?id=LoH2SXEnnoEC&dq=, 3:1171, no. 1741
Quelle: Contact (1985), Chapter 22 (p. 393)

“We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.”

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57 min 0 sec
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean [Episode 1]

“I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. It's hard to talk about the Cosmos without using big numbers. I said 'billion' many times on the Cosmos television series, which was seen by a great many people. But I never said 'billions and billions.' For one thing, it's imprecise. How many billions are 'billions and billions'? A few billion? Twenty billion? A hundred billion? 'Billions and billions' is pretty vague… For a while, out of childish pique, I wouldn't utter the phrase, even when asked to. But I've gotten over that. So, for the record, here it goes: 'Billions and billions.”

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Carl Sagan

List of misquotations
Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenium (1997)

“Our intelligence and our technology have given us the power to affect the climate. How will we use this power? Are we willing to tolerate ignorance and complacency in matters that affect the entire human family? Do we value short-term advantages above the welfare of the Earth? Or will we think on longer time scales, with concern for our children and our grandchildren, to understand and protect the complex life-support systems of our planet? The Earth is a tiny and fragile world. It needs to be cherished.”

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Carl Sagan buch Cosmos

Quelle: Cosmos (1980), p. 103

“If we like them, they’re freedom fighters, she thought. If we don’t like them, they’re terrorists. In the unlikely case we can’t make up our minds, they’re temporarily only guerrillas.”

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Carl Sagan buch Contact

Quelle: Contact (1985), Chapter 3 (p. 55)

“Cannabis also enhances the enjoyment of sex — on the one hand it gives an exquisite sensitivity, but on the other hand it postpones orgasm: in part by distracting me with the profusion of image passing before my eyes. The actual duration of orgasm seems to lengthen greatly, but this may be the usual experience of time expansion which comes with cannabis smoking.”

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Essay as "Mr. X" (1969)

“Nobody listens to mathematicians.”

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Carl Sagan buch Cosmos

Quelle: Cosmos (1980), p. 262

“A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.”

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58 min 56 sec
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), Traveller's Tales [Episode 6]

“All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.”

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Carl Sagan buch Cosmos

Cosmos (2011 ebook edition)
Carl Sagan
Random House
2011
July
http://books.google.com/books?id=EIqoiww1r9sC&pg=PT312&dq=%22Not+all+bits+have+equal+value%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=yHThUrX4Ns-xoQSIr4DoCQ&ved=0CEAQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22Not%20all%20bits%20have%20equal%20value%22&f=false;

““Do you understand what’s going on?”
“Not at all,” he shouted back. “I can almost prove this can’t be happening.””

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Carl Sagan buch Contact

Quelle: Contact (1985), Chapter 19 (p. 330)

“Astronomically, the U. S. S. R. and the United States are the same place.”

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Carl Sagan buch Cosmos

Quelle: Cosmos (1980), p. 196

“Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.”

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Carl Sagan buch Cosmos

Quelle: Cosmos (1980), p. 332

“The origin of life happened in significantly less than 500 million years. …Six days was once a popular hypothesis. …A process that happens quickly is a process that is in some sense likely… this evidence suggests that the origin of life was in some sense easy, in some sense sitting in the laws of physics and chemistry.”

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The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)

“There is a very stunning range of studies… of interstellar organic matter… the cold, dark spaces between the stars are also loaded with organic matter. …complex organic materials are everywhere.”

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The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)

“Imagine how different our world would be if those discoveries had been explained and used for the benefit of everyone, if the humane perspective of Eratosthenes had been widely adopted and applied. But this was not to be. Alexandria was the greatest city the Western world had ever seen. People from all nations came here to live to trade to learn, on a given day these harbours were thronged with merchants and scholars and tourists, it's probably here that the word Cosmopolitan realised its true meaning of a citizen not just of a nation but of the Cosmos, to be a citizen of the Cosmos. Here were clearly the seeds of our modern world, but why didn't they take root and flourish why instead did the Western world slumber through a 1000 years of darkness until Columbus and Copernicus and their contemporaries rediscovered the work done here? I cannot give you a simple answer but I do know this, there is no record in the entire history of the library that any of the illustrious scholars and scientists who worked here ever seriously challenged a single political or economic or religious assumption of the society in which they lived. The permanence of the stars was questioned, the justice of slavery was not.”

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28 min 30 sec
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), Who Speaks for Earth? [Episode 13]

“Instead of wanting everyone to share and know of their discoveries the Pythagoreans suppressed the square root of two and the dodecahedron. The outside world was not to know. The Pythagoreans had discovered, in the mathematical underpinnings of nature, one of the two most powerful scientific tools, the other of course is experiment, but instead of using their insight to advance the collective voyage of human discovery they made of it little more than the hocus-pocus of a mystery cult. Science and mathematics were to be removed from the hands of the merchants and the artisans.”

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38 min 10 sec
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), The Backbone of Night [Episode 7]

“This vast number of worlds, the enormous scale of the universe… has not been taken into account, even superficially, in virtually no religion, and especially in no Western religions.”

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The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)

“If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.”

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Carl Sagan buch Contact

Quelle: Contact (1985), Chapter 5 (p. 75)

“In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.”

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0 min 45 sec
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), Encyclopedia Galactica [Episode 12]

“It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.”

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Carl Sagan buch Cosmos

Quelle: Cosmos (1980), p. 73

“With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong.”

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Carl Sagan buch Cosmos

Quelle: Cosmos (1980), p. 94

“Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.”

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Emmett F. Fields, in "Atheism : An Affirmative View" (1980) http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/emmett_fields/affirmative_atheism.html
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