Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and…

Carl Sagan
415 citations
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. ✨ Carl Sagan (2011). Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, p.430, Ballantine Books
Reading Thought
6

More Author Quotes

A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet. One of the great revelations of the age of … ▶
If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good - we abet a general climate in which scepticism is considered impolite, science tire … ▶
Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others? That’s who we are! We’re not who we say we are, we’re not who we want to be - we are the sum of the influence and impact that we have, in our live … ▶
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light. ✨ Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). Pale Blu … ▶
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions. ✨ Carl Sagan (2011). Cosmos, p.305, Ballantine Books

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. ✨ Carl Sagan (2011). Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, p.430, Ballantine Books

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes