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Carl Edward Sagan war ein US-amerikanischer Astronom, Astrophysiker, Exobiologe, Fernsehmoderator, Sachbuchautor und Schriftsteller. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. November 1934 – 20. Dezember 1996   •   Andere Namen Karl Seýgan
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Carl Sagan Berühmte Zitate

„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
Diese Übersetzung wartet auf eine Überprüfung. Ist es korrekt?

„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.“

Carl Sagan

„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.“

Carl Sagan

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

“The chiliasts made an atheist out of me.”

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Carl Sagan buch Contact

Quelle: Contact (1985), Chapter 15 (p. 258)

“They (i. e., the Pythagoreans) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.”

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Carl Sagan buch Cosmos

Quelle: Cosmos (1980), p. 184

“If there's nothing in here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?”

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Carl Sagan

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

“The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.”

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Carl Sagan buch Cosmos

Quelle: Cosmos (1980), p. 91

“Evolving before our eyes has been a God of the Gaps; that is, whatever it is we cannot explain lately is attributed to God.”

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

“For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.”

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Carl Sagan buch Cosmos

Quelle: Cosmos (1980), p. 173

“Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring — not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.”

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Carl Sagan buch Pale Blue Dot

Quelle: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994), p. 371

“The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can’t all be correct. And what if all of you are wrong? It’s a possibility, you know. You must care about the truth, right? Well, the way to winnow through all the differing contentions is to be skeptical. I’m not any more skeptical about your religious beliefs than I am about every new scientific idea I hear about. But in my line of work, they’re called hypotheses, not inspiration and not revelation.”

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Carl Sagan buch Contact

Quelle: Contact (1985), Chapter 10 (p. 162)

“She too had found the experience transforming. How could she not? A demon had been exorcised. Several. And just when she felt more capable of love than she had ever been, she found herself alone.”

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Carl Sagan buch Contact

Quelle: Contact (1985), Chapter 23 (p. 407)

“The old man made himself look hard at the Raven and saw that it was not a great bird from the sky but the work of men like himself. This first encounter turned out to be peaceful. The men of the La Pérouse expedition were under strict orders to treat with respect any people they might discover, an exceptional policy for its time and after.”

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4 min 40 sec
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), Who Speaks for Earth? [Episode 13]

“We find a set of data that strongly implies the presence of complex organic molecules in the outer solar system.”

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

“If we seek… nature, then love can be informed by truth instead of being based on ignorance or self-deception.”

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Carl Sagan

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

“If you take a look at science in its everyday function, of course you find that scientists run the gamut of human emotions and personalities and character and so on. But there’s one thing that is really striking to the outsider, and that is the gauntlet of criticism that is considered acceptable or even desirable. The poor graduate student at his or her Ph. D. oral exam is subjected to a withering crossfire of questions that sometimes seem hostile or contemptuous; this from the professors who have the candidate’s future in their grasp. The students naturally are nervous; who wouldn’t be? True, they’ve prepared for it for years. But they understand that at that critical moment they really have to be able to answer questions. So in preparing to defend their theses, they must anticipate questions; they have to think, “Where in my thesis is there a weakness that someone else might find — because I sure better find it before they do, because if they find it and I'm not prepared, I'm in deep trouble."”

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Carl Sagan

Wonder and Skepticism
Skeptical Inquirer
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1995
January-February
0194-6730
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/wonder_and_skepticism/

“There is in the lovely Martian landscape not a footprint, not an artifact, not even an old beer can, not a blade of grass, not a kangaroo rat, not even, so far as we can tell, a microbe. Mars and the Moon and Venus… the only planets that we've landed on—are utterly lifeless. …in our solar system we may discover that there is life only on this world. This says that life is not guaranteed, that life requires something special, something improbable.”

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

“Let’s see if I’ve got this straight,” he returned. It was a phrase of hers that he had adopted “It’s a lazy Saturday afternoon, and there’s this couple lying naked in bed reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more ‘numinous’ than the Resurrection. Do they know how to have a good time or don’t they?”

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Carl Sagan buch Contact

Quelle: Contact (1985), Chapter 9 (p. 154)

“I stress that the universe is made mostly of nothing, that something is the exception.”

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Carl Sagan

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

“Once upon a time, the best minds of the human species believed that the planets were attached to crystal spheres. …Both in classic and in medieval times, it was prominently speculated that gods or angels propelled them, gave them a twirl every now and then. The Newtonian gravitational superstructure replaced angels with GMm/r2… as science advances, there seems to be less and less for God to do.”

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

“Carbonaceous meteorites that fall to the Earth… have several percent to as much as 10 percent of complex organic matter in them.”

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

“This is Phobos… Its mean density is known, and it is consistent with organic matter. Deimos… same story.”

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

“In some respects, science has far surpassed religion in delivering awe. How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, "This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed"? Instead they say, "No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way."”

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Carl Sagan buch Pale Blue Dot

Quelle: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994), p. 50

“If I were to propose to you that my arm could be in this position or in that position but it would be forbidden by the laws of nature to be in some intermediate position, that would likely strike you as absurd, as contrary to experience. And yet on the subatomic level, there is a quantization of energy and position and momentum. The reason that it seems counterintuitive is that is that we are not ordinarily down at the level of the very small, where quantum effects dominate.”

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Carl Sagan

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

“War is murder writ large.”

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Carl Sagan buch Cosmos

Quelle: Cosmos (1980), p. 326

“Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves, but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.”

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Carl Sagan

54 min 25 sec
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), Who Speaks for Earth? [Episode 13]

“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.”

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1 min 10 sec
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), Encyclopedia Galactica [Episode 12]

“For as long as there been humans we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Where are we? Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. This perspective is a courageous continuation of our penchant for constructing and testing mental models of the skies; the Sun as a red-hot stone, the stars as a celestial flame, the Galaxy as the backbone of night.”

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Carl Sagan buch Cosmos

Quelle: Cosmos (1980), p. 193

“We are set irrevocably, I believe, on a path that will take us to the stars—unless in some monstrous capitulation to stupidity and greed, we destroy ourselves first.”

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Carl Sagan buch Broca's Brain

Quelle: Broca's Brain (1979), Chapter 25, “The Amniotic Universe” (p. 368)

“In any case, we do not advance the human cause by refusing to consider ideas that make us frightened.”

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Carl Sagan buch Broca's Brain

Quelle: Broca's Brain (1979), Chapter 25, “The Amniotic Universe” (p. 364)

“It is a good idea not to make up our minds prematurely on this issue. It is probably best not to let our personal preferences influence the decision. Rather, in the long tradition of successful science, we should permit nature to reveal the truth to us.”

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Carl Sagan buch Broca's Brain

Quelle: Broca's Brain (1979), Chapter 24, “Gott and the Turtles” (p. 351)

“Proponents of doctrinal religions—ones in which a particular body of belief is prized and infidels scorned—will be threatened by the courageous pursuit of knowledge. We hear from such people that it may be dangerous to probe too deeply. Many people have inherited their religion like their eye color: they consider it not a thing to think very deeply about, and in any case beyond our control. But those with a set of beliefs they profess to feel deeply about, which they have selected without an unbiased sifting through the facts and the alternatives, will feel uncomfortably challenged by searching questions. Anger at queries about our beliefs is the body’s warning signal: here lies unexamined and probably dangerous doctrinal baggage.”

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Carl Sagan buch Broca's Brain

Quelle: Broca's Brain (1979), Chapter 23, “A Sunday Sermon” (pp. 339-340)

“The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves—without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster. We cannot begin with an entirely clean slate, since we arrive at this problem with predispositions of hereditary and environmental origin; but, after understanding such built-in biases, is it not possible to pry insights from nature?”

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Carl Sagan buch Broca's Brain

Quelle: Broca's Brain (1979), Chapter 23, “A Sunday Sermon” (p. 339)

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