Carl Sagan Berühmte Zitate
„Im Bewusstsein des Menschen erkennt die Natur sich selbst“
Quelle: http://www.carlsagan.com Übersetzer: Guido Biermann)
Original engl.: "We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself."
Carl Sagan Zitate und Sprüche
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
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."
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."
Carl Sagan: Zitate auf Englisch
Introduction (p. 7)
The Dragons of Eden (1977)
Introduction (p. 7)
The Dragons of Eden (1977)
“Whether we believe in God depends very much on what we mean by God.”
Quelle: Broca's Brain (1979), Chapter 23, “A Sunday Sermon” (p. 330)
“The best antidote for pseudoscience, I firmly believe, is science.”
Quelle: Broca's Brain (1979), Chapter 5, “Night Walkers and Mystery Mongers: Sense and Nonsense at the End of Science” (p. 75)