There is no other species on the Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything. It has two rules. First: there are no sacred truths; all assumptions must be critically examined; arguments from authority are worthless. Second: whatever is inconsistent with the facts must be discarded or revised. We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be. —Carl Sagan in Cosmos More about this quote Tags: science earth tools brains Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 1014 neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness. —Carl Sagan in Cosmos More about this quote Tags: evidence brain neuroscience consciousness architecture Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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. —Carl Sagan in Cosmos More about this quote Tags: politics religion learning knowledge censorship science suppression Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger still. —Carl Sagan in Cosmos More about this quote Tags: mind infinity numbers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers. —Carl Sagan in Cosmos More about this quote Tags: questions knowledge courage earth answers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us — there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries. —Carl Sagan in Cosmos More about this quote Tags: universe excitement tingling sensation mysteries Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you're not confused, you're not paying attention. —Tom Peters More about this quote Tags: attention confusion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Bosses: You make your living going to meetings. Hence any meeting that does not bubble and incite enthusiasm is a forever-lost opportunity. —Tom Peters More about this quote Tags: gratitude appreciation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else. —Tom Peters More about this quote Tags: gratitude appreciation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. —Margaret Cousins More about this quote Tags: gratitude appreciation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow. —Reed Markham More about this quote Tags: fatherhood shaving Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The great ages of prose are the ages in which men shave. The great ages of poetry are those in which they allow their beards to grow. —Robert Lynd More about this quote Tags: men shaving beards mustache Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. —James Baldwin in The Fire Next Time More about this quote Tags: pain hatred reasons Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It’s better to not have a reputation than a bad one. —Nic Pizzolatto More about this quote Tags: reputation infamy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world. —Charlie Munger More about this quote Tags: news action thought Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email