The Ethiopians make their gods black and snub-nosed; the Thracians say theirs have blue eyes and red hair … Yes, and if oxen and horses or lions had … - Carl Sagan
" "The Ethiopians make their gods black and snub-nosed; the Thracians say theirs have blue eyes and red hair … Yes, and if oxen and horses or lions had hands, and could paint with their hands, and produce works of art as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods like horses, and oxen like oxen …
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About Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan (9 November 1934 – 20 December 1996) 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 that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them. Sagan argued the hypothesis, accepted since, that the high surface temperatures of Venus can be attributed to, and calculated using, the greenhouse effect. He testified to the US Congress in 1985 that the greenhouse effect will change the earth's climate system.
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We have held the peculiar notion that a person or society that is a little different from us, whoever we are, is somehow strange or bizarre, to be distrusted or loathed. Think of the negative connotations of words like alien or outlandish. And yet the monuments and cultures of each of our civilizations merely represent different ways of being human. An extraterrestrial visitor, looking at the differences among human beings and their societies, would find those differences trivial compared to the similarities. The Cosmos may be densely populated with intelligent beings. But the Darwinian lesson is clear: There will be no humans elsewhere. Only here. Only on this small planet. We are a rare as well as an endangered species. Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
«بدلاً من أن نعترف بأننا جهلاء في كثير من المجالات، نميل إلى قول أشياء من قبيل أن الكون غاص بما يجل عن الوصف. فهناك إله للفجوات مُكلف بالمسئولية عن الأشياء التي لم نفهمها بعد. وحينما تحسنت المعرفة الطبية منذ القرن الرابع ق.م. تزايد ما نفهمه وقل ما اضطررنا إلى أن نعزوه إلى التدخل الإلهي — سواء ما يتعلق بأسباب الأمراض أو بعلاجها — فقلت الوفيات عند الولادة ووفيات الأطفال الرضع، وطالت أعمار الناس، وحَسَّن الطب نوعية الحياة بالنسبة للمليارات منا في كل أنحاء العالم.»
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