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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe. I mean the <i>real</i> universe. All those … - Carl Sagan
" "Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe. I mean the real universe. All those light-years. All those worlds. I think of the scope of your universe, the opportunities it affords the Creator, and it takes my breath away. It’s much better than bottling Him up in one small world. I never liked the idea of Earth as God’s green footstool. It was too reassuring, like a children’s story...like a tranquilizer. But your universe has room enough, and time enough, for the kind of God I believe in.
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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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Nükleer rehineler olan bizler -yeryüzündeki tüm halklar- nükleer ve klasik savaş konularında kendimizi eğitmeliyiz. Ardından da hükümetlerimizi eğitmeliyiz. Hayatta kalmamız için akla yakın gereçleri sağlayacak bilimi ve teknolojiyi geliştirmeliyiz. Alışılmış kalıpların dikte ettiği sosyal, politik, ekonomik ve dinsel fikirlere cesaretle karşı koyma isteğini edinmeliyiz. Dünyanın her bölgesindeki insan kardeşlerimizin insan olduklarını anlamak için elimizden gelen her çabayı harcamalıyız. Kuşkusuz bu tür çaba çok zordur.
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In some respects, science has far surpassed religion in delivering awe. How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, "This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed"? Instead they say, "No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way."
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