Carl Sagan Quotes About Consciousness

Quotes about: Consciousness

• A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet. One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely, somehow vulnerable, bearing the entire human species through the oceans of space and time.

  Carl Sagan

  Lonely, War, Ocean

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Documentary (1990 Update). Episode 13: "Who Speaks for Earth?", 1990.

• A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet.

  Carl Sagan

  War, Earth, Consciousness

  "Cosmos". TV Mini-Series, www.imdb.com. 1980.

• It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.

  Carl Sagan

  Vastness, Consciousness, Creatures

  Carl Sagan (1997). “Contact”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

• If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human rights'? How smart does a chimp have to be before killing him constitutes murder?

  Carl Sagan

  Smart, Animal, Rights

  Carl Sagan (2012). “Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence”, p.126, Ballantine Books

• We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Journey, Long

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, 1980.

• The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 10(14) neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness.

  Carl Sagan

  Brain, Connections, Machines

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 278, 1980.

• We've begun at last to wonder about our origins, star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms contemplating the evolution of matter, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet Earth and perhaps throughout the cosmos. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves but also to that cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Spring, Long

• When you realize that no one really knows what they are doing and that everyone is doing the best they can according to their own level of consciousness, life gets a lot easier.
  Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

  Carl Sagan

  Mean, Deep Thought, Levels

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