"Perhaps the locale of the subjunctive mood willone day be found. Will Latins turn out to be extravagantly endowed and English-speaking peoples signifi...
Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex.
~ Carl Sagan ~
Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex.
More Carl Sagan quotes
"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
"The entire evolutionary record on our planet, particularly the record contained in fossil endocasts, illustrates a progressive tendency toward intelli...
"We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
"How thoroughly the chimps and bonobos have erased the list of purported human distinctions!-self-awareness, language, ideas and their association, rea...
"Perhaps if one less dragonfly had drowned in the Carboniferous swamps, the intelligent organisms on our planet today would have feathers and teach the...
"Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracte...
"The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer ...
"The secrets of evolution, are time and death. There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us.
"Pliny suggested that the ostrich, then newly discovered, was the result of a cross between a giraffe and a gnat. (It would, I suppose, have to be a fe...
"So far as I know, childbirth is generally painful in only one of the millions of species on Earth: human beings. This must be a consequence of the rec...
"It may be that there are kernels of truth in a few of these doctrines, but their widespread acceptancebetokens a lack of intellectual rigor, an absenc...
"Much more plausible is the computer-based explanation that dreams are a spillover from the unconscious processing of the day's experience, from the br...
"at least some paleontologists believe that the demiseof the dinosaurs was accelerated by nocturnal predation on reptilian eggs by the early mammals. T...
"All the explanations proposed seem to beonly partly satisfactory. They range from massive climatic change to mammalian predation to the extinction of ...