The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
Dr. Carl Sagan
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. . -Carl Sagan.
CARL SAGAN The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
CARL SAGAN Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. -Carl Sa...
CARL SAGAN I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG I don't think science is hard to teach because humans aren't ready for it, or because it arose only ...
CARL SAGAN In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to ...
CARL SAGAN The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us ...
CARL SAGAN Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistak...
EMMETT F. FIELDS In the 1970s, we had Carl Sagan, and he was so suave with his turtleneck and his tweed jacket. And h...
GREG GRAFFIN There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate ...
CARL SAGAN The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Je...
CARL SAGAN When I was in my teens, Yehudi Menuhin, who was at work on his project 'The Music of Man,' i...
DANIEL HOPE Carl Sagan's 'Pale Blue Dot' is where I got the title 'Momentary Masters.'
ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
MARCUS AURELIUS Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They wi...
CARL SAGAN I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem ye...
CARL SAGAN I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promi...
CARL SAGAN Planetary exploration satisfies our inclination for great enterprises and wanderings and quests that...
CARL SAGAN By my reckoning, I'm about 100 kilometers from Pathfinder. Technically it's called "Carl Sagan Memor...
ANDY WEIR We were sitting there watching the coffin being nailed shut, and what was inside was imagination and...
BRUCE MURRAY Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required funda...
XUN KUANG If you look up at the Milky Way through the eyes of Carl Sagan, you get a feeling in your chest of s...
RICHARD DAWKINS The universe is always in synchronistic harmony and brings forth the music to be played.
ANGELA PORISKY The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.
ARTHUR RUBENSTEIN To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.
EVAN OSNOS Can you be sure that others have not come before you and destroyed the pristine state of the native ...
CARL SAGAN Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you k...
CARL SAGAN Today my heart is focused on the vibrational energy that my world is in harmony with the Universe.
DEBBIE A. ANDERSON Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move flue...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON Salvation is the entire universe being brought back into harmony with its maker.
ROB BELL Interviewer: Didn't Saga...
ANN DRUYAN Everything in the world is conducted by gradual process. This seems to be the great principle of har...
WILLIAM GODWIN Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.
ANTON DU BEKE When a Carl Sagan appears someone who really has that astonishing combination of poetry, of knowledg...
ANN DRUYAN My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the hu...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Love is the most perfect manifestation of ambition.
CHRISTOPHER MOLINEUX We would not be Human if we did not prefer to be the devourers rather than the devoured, but either ...
MARGARET ATWOOD Dr. Lee is going to be the highest-paid HR (human resources) manager ever,
TOM BURT When a Carl Sagan appears someone who really has that astonishing combination of poetry, of knowl...
ANN DRUYAN String theory makes sense to me because the universe is a symphony that creates harmony with the vib...
KAMAND KOJOURI The traditional Confucian structure that invoked ideals of perfect human virtue for harmony must inc...
PATRICK MENDIS A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.
REBECCA WEST Always do more than is required of you.
GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.
OSCAR WILDE ... the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like ...
DR. CARL SAGAN That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbea...
HERMANN HESSE Competition is used for discrimination. Harmony makes everything perfect.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We had some ranting about the meaning of nature, ... And Jewel is more defending Treadwell's positio...
WERNER HERZOG Indeed, Dr Haxhausen fought to preserve his freedom with very good reason, for he required a great d...
THOMAS LIGOTTI T.H. moved through the forest like the melody of a well-known song, in perfect harmony with his surr...
CHARLES DE LINT Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
WAYNE DYER Everything is perfect in the universe -- even your desire to improve it.
WAYNE DYER Everything is perfect in the universe -- even your desire to improve it.
WAYNE DYER Everything is perfect in the universe-even your desire to improve it.
WAYNE DYER Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach ou...
DAYANANDA SARASWATI Justice, love, truth, peace and harmony, a serene unity with science and the laws of the universe.
LUTHER BURBANK It's helping students learn what's required to be successful in human services careers.
JANE WAGNER I'm, not gonna lie. I'm not perfect. And to my knowledge, no one except one person is.
And they are ...
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.
CATHARINE ESTHER BEECHER The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.
CATHARINE BEECHER Self-realization or self-knowing or awakening is about knowing/ becoming conscious of our true natur...
THOMAS VAZHAKUNNATHU The trouble is the truth isn’t an easy sell. The herd has always, and will forever, choose the nic...
BOBBY W. MILLER To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
CARL SAGAN And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
ANN DRUYAN Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
CARL SAGAN Just as there are those who accept every UFO report at face value, there are also those who dismiss ...
CARL SAGAN The human condition is not perfect. We are not perfect specimens, any of us. We're not robots.
MICHAEL OVITZ My unrealized ambition is to tend my vines, produce wine, and work like an artisan. I dream of redis...
GERARD DEPARDIEU Sagan revealed and showed a vision where anyone who had access to a screen could touch their way thr...
JOE FIRMAGE Not really, ... There is no Carl. I made him up.
E. L. DOCTOROW What Carl used to say is, 'When you're in love, you want to tell the world,' ... He wanted to commun...
ANN DRUYAN It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles.
EMMANUELLE BEART Carl is not even in the same time zone with those people. He is somewhere else, on the road intervie...
BOB MOORE Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen wi...
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET Really only two things in life are definate, religion and war, in perfect harmony.
ADAM BAKER I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI the search for meaning is really the search for the lost chord. When the lost chord is discovered by...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to ...
ALAN W. WATTS I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God w...
ALBERT EINSTEIN In the beginning there was nothing, and then god created "me".
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI Don't hang out with people who are:
Ungrateful
Unhelpful
Unruly
Unkindly
Un...
GERMANY KENT The greatest temple in the universe is the human heart.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Carl Icahn, corporate raider by trade, is creative, a scrambler, and certainly not to be underestima...
CAROL LOOMIS Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slave...
JACK KINGSTON Faith in creation; we are all made separate and alike with purpose to fulfill a peaceful harmony the...
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe.
A.A. ATTANASIO I am too perfect... to be here with you...
DEYTH BANGER We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to disc...
DMITRI MENDELEEV Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greate...
JANE SIBERRY My main reason for scepticism about the Huxley/Sagan theory is that the human brain is demonstrably ...
RICHARD DAWKINS In the East the wilderness has no evil connotation; it is thought of as an expression of the unity a...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS You are a valuable instrument in the orchestration of your own world, and the overall harmony of the...
SUZY KASSEM
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CARL SAGAN In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bil...
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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 When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - ...
CARL 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...
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