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Pour la première fois de ma vie, ce "moi" semblait se partager et la découverte d'une telle dualité m'étonnait prodigieusement.


Françoise Sagan

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CARL SAGAN Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how ...
CARL SAGAN For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
CARL SAGAN The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
CARL SAGAN The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matc...
CARL SAGAN Some information is classified legitimately; as with military hardware, secrecy sometimes really is ...
CARL SAGAN My father was not only a planetary scientist and a great popularizer of science, but he thought very...
NICK SAGAN Understanding is a kind of ecstasy
CARL SAGAN You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. Th...
CARL SAGAN We've been told that there exists no other trove of rock-and-roll history that is anywhere near the ...
BILL SAGAN The quality is unbelievable. I give the BGP people a lot of credit. They kept [the tapes] cold and a...
BILL SAGAN In my opinion it's worth a significant amount more. It certainly is in excess of $50 million. It's p...
BILL SAGAN It's tough to do your job because it's so tempting to go down and just listen to audio or go look at...
BILL SAGAN I thought there was maybe a half million to a million slides and negatives. As it turned out, there'...
BILL SAGAN It was 25 feet high in height, below ground. Part of it was below ground. And there were, I thought,...
BILL SAGAN In the audio and video archives, there are 7,000 taped concerts alone. I'm a rock fan who wanted to ...
BILL SAGAN Bill Graham was a pack rat. I think Bill Graham just put everything down in that storage area and wa...
BILL SAGAN The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may...
CARL SAGAN Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever t...
CARL SAGAN Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
CARL SAGAN The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps pr...
CARL SAGAN It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another'...
FRANCOISE SAGAN What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on whic...
CARL SAGAN You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on ...
CARL SAGAN It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fift...
CARL SAGAN You have to know the past to understand the present.
CARL SAGAN We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
CARL SAGAN Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envisio...
CARL SAGAN It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.
FRANCOISE SAGAN Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
FRANCOISE SAGAN In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my positio...
CARL SAGAN A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity...
CARL SAGAN Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowe...
CARL SAGAN One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years....
CARL SAGAN It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fif...
CARL SAGAN In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bil...
CARL SAGAN If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe...
CARL SAGAN It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most sk...
CARL SAGAN We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 ...
CARL SAGAN Are we an exceptionally unlikely accident or is the universe brimming over with intelligence? (It's)...
CARL SAGAN The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
F. SAGAN When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - ...
CARL SAGAN British and Canadian sci-fi strikes me as more forward-looking than its American counterpart, as evi...
NICK SAGAN It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one a...
FRANCOISE SAGAN We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have ch...
CARL SAGAN Black holes may be apertures to elsewhen. Were we to plunge down a black hole, we would re-emerge, i...
CARL SAGAN It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.
CARL SAGAN The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all ...
CARL SAGAN I don't want to believe. I want to know.
CARL SAGAN In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my positio...
CARL SAGAN You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such...
CARL SAGAN I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence,...
CARL SAGAN Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us ...
CARL SAGAN The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from ...
CARL SAGAN The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and c...
CARL SAGAN Human divisions would be child's play for any reasonably competent alien overlord to exploit - c...
NICK SAGAN The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.
CARL SAGAN The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus w...
CARL SAGAN [When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996...
CARL SAGAN I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering ...
CARL SAGAN For a genre that's about looking to the future, science fiction has sure been looking backwards ...
NICK SAGAN