Science As A Candle In The Dark Quotes

#1. By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. -this quote is actually found in Carl Sagan's book The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, where he attributes it to engineer James Oberg, who says he stole it from someone else.

Richard Dawkins

#2. A newspaper runs a story, a friend posts a link on Facebook, a blogger writes a post, and it's interesting. But the real intellectual action often takes place in the comments.

Clive Thompson

#3. For mankind, science is the only real candle in this dark universe; all other candles are fake! Science is our only real hope; all other hopes are fake! Remember this!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#5. when distress comes your way, pause and ponder

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#6. This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.

Pat Boone

#7. How unnatural the imposed view, imposed by a puritanical ethos, that passionate love belongs only to the young, that people are dead from the neck down by the time they are forty, and that any deep feeling, any passion after that age, is either ludicrous or revolting!

May Sarton

#8. How science dwindles, and how volumes swell,
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun!

Edward Young

#9. The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.

Marton Csokas