Carl Sagan Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
-
I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
-
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
-
I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
-
Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
-
Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.
-
I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
-
With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
-
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
-
My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
-
I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot!
-
Life is always a problem. The fact that I'm on the radio saying that I don't necessarily see hope does not relieve people, does not relieve my son, does not relieve children, of the responsibility to struggle.
-
I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
-
I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
-
We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.
-
I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.
-
I don't ever want to feel complacent.
-
If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.
-
It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.
-
… why God made irreconcilable Good and the means of good.
-
jazz and Neo-Plasticism are highly revolutionary phenomena: they are destructive constructive. They do not destroy the actual content of form, but rather deepen form only in order to elevate it to a new order. They break the bonds of 'form as individuality' in order to make possible a universal unity.
-
When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!
-
Even in my music, I am always searching for big, universal things - ways that you can sort of reach outside the norm of what you are doing.
-
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.
