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Carl Sagan on History

1934–1996 United States

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Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group.

Cosmos (1980)

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995)

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle.

The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995)

In more than one respect, the exploring of the Solar System and homesteading other worlds constitutes the beginning, much more than the end, of history.

They were well educated. Products of the European Enlightenment, they were students of history. They knew human fallibility and weakness and corruptibility.

The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995)

We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Carl Sagan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.