Carl Sagan

To paraphrase Carl Sagan, we, all of us, are made of star stuff and we now have the capability to study the stars.

SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Jill Tarter -- Beating the Odds 2010

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, to paraphrase Carl Sagan, and they are not convinced that this evidence matches the claim.

Study Suggests Earlier Meat-Eating In Hominids 2010

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, to paraphrase Carl Sagan, and they are not convinced that this evidence matches the claim.

Study Suggests Earlier Meat-Eating In Hominids 2010

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, to paraphrase Carl Sagan, and they are not convinced that this evidence matches the claim.

Study Suggests Earlier Meat-Eating In Hominids 2010

To paraphrase Carl Sagan, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Dr. Larry Dossey: Addendum To 'The Mythology Of Science-Based Medicine' 2010

I would venture to guess it is not to feel alone, or curiosity, or to paraphrase Carl Sagan in Contact "It would be an awful waste of space."

Attempting to Contact Aliens is nothing new. Mish 2009

I would venture to guess it is not to feel alone, or curiosity, or to paraphrase Carl Sagan in Contact "It would be an awful waste of space."

Archive 2009-02-01 Mish 2009

The more I read and listen to Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, recall Carl Sagan's Nova series, and look at the ants and various insects in my little garden I tend with a growing love, warmth, and appreciation I am sure as hell not having as many grandiose notions as I used to concerning mankind's place in the cosmos as a species or too much of any damn thing else.

What are we, without fear of death? Steven Barnes 2009

I think this is rather lovely, but above all it reminds me what a gloriously lyrical turn of phrase Carl Sagan had, a man with true sensawunda.

October 15th, 2009 2009

To paraphrase Carl Sagan, if we say the universe is all that is, then it certainly is closed system.

Those contemptuous atheists... why won't they be kind? Ann Althouse 2006