Jingoistic rhetoric and puerile self-congratulatory nationalism. - Carl Sagan (1934 – 1996), Contact, 1985, Chapter 11 (p. 181) What I’m saying is, if God wanted to send us a message, and ancient writings were the only way he could think of doing it, he could have done a better job. - Carl Sagan (1934 – 1996), Contact, 1985, Chapter 10 (p. 164) In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It’s their nature. They can’t help it. - Carl Sagan (1934 – 1996), Contact, 1985, Chapter 20 (p. 359) This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power. - Carl Sagan (1934 – 1996), Contact, 1985, Chapter 23 (p. 403) Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had argued that humanity was divided into Greeks and everybody else, whom he called barbarians and that the Greeks should keep themselves racially pure. He thought it was fitting for the Greeks to enslave other peoples. But Eratosthenes criticized Aristotle for his blind chauvinism, he believed there was good and bad in every nation. - Carl Sagan (1934 – 1996) History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly belong to all of us. We must not let it happen again. - Carl Sagan (1934 – 1996) https://youtube/watch?v=T6C9taivF40
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