Wednesday, 27 September 2023

Q. Sagan

The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”

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Ants occupy the same landscape that we do. They have plenty to do, things to occupy themselves. On some level they’re very well aware of their environment. But we don’t try to communicate with them. So I don’t think they have the foggiest notion that we exist

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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.

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New generations grew to maturity wholly ignorant of the sky that had transfixed their ancestors and that had stimulated the modern age of science and technology. Without even noticing, just as astronomy entered a golden age most people cut themselves off from the sky, a cosmic isolationism that ended only with the dawn of space exploration.

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