Carl Sagan Culture Quotes

#1. It came to me with great force that I was wasting my life, that I was wasting it by living from day to day in a state of waiting, that I had in effect given myself up as a prisoner to this war.

J.M. Coetzee

#2. Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

Albert Pike

#3. The uniqueness of humans has been claimed on many grounds, but most often because of our tool-making, culture, language, reason and morality. We have them, the other animals don't, and
so the argument goes
that's that.

Carl Sagan

#4. I reject the notion that science is by its nature secretive. Its culture and ethos are, and for very good reason, collective, collaborative, and communicative.

Carl Sagan

#5. But when a cut is deep, it's still just flesh beneath.

Veronica Rossi

#6. I'm allergic to chemicals in food so I eat only organic foods.

Carol Channing

#7. Presidents make history but are also a product of it. And there are two kinds: transforming and transactional. Reagan was a transforming president. He made history.

David E. Hoffman

#8. I think it talks about that there needs to be some proactive attack against drugs infiltrating our culture.

Joe Morton

#9. In every culture we imagined something like our own political system running the Universe Few found the similarity suspicious.

Carl Sagan

#10. Hesitation is a cruel taskmaster; it breeds weakness the same way filth breeds germs.

Ray Dacolias

#11. For want of my father, I was lost.

T.J. Klune

#12. 'MacGruber' came to life mostly because we just liked saying 'MacGyver.' 'MacGyver' this. 'MacGyver' that. It's a great word.

Jorma Taccone

#13. There's estrogen running through my veins!

Dane Cook

#14. I'm interested in the moment when two objects collide and generate a third. The third object is where the interesting work is.

Bruce Mau

#15. You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can't fulfill your dreams.

Jesse Jackson

#16. If you study a historical episode and feel good about it, it probably means that you haven't had it explained very well. Historical conflict is usually the struggle of different conceptions of what is good.

Patrick N. Allitt

#17. The Yale anthropologist Weston La Barre goes far as to argue that 'a surprisingly good case could be made that much of culture is hallucination' and that 'the whole intent and function of ritual appears to be... a group wish to hallucinate reality'.

Carl Sagan