Carl Sagan Quotes
I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
Sagan, Carl. Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science. Random House, 1979, p. 64.
Manava Dharma Shastra. This text is a part of the Hindu Holy Texts. Hindus believe that Manu was a prophet whose text is revealed or inspired.
Although a heroine of modern conservatives, Rand was hostile to religion. Where most conservatives would refer to “God-given rights”, Ayn Rand, argued that a human’s very existance was the warrant and sanction of his rights.
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages sent into space: the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages intended to be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them.
