Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group Groups of people from divergent ethnic and cultural backgrounds working in some sense together [is] surely a humanizing and character building experience. If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.
Carl SaganI believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Carl SaganThe truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.
Carl SaganThe understanding of the intent of the artist which I can achieve when high sometimes carries over to when Iām down. This is one of many human frontiers which cannabis has helped me traverse.
Carl Sagan