Recent research shows that many children without enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn (โcognitive impairmentโ ). Children don't have to be starving for this to happen. Even mild undernourishment โ the kind most common among poor people in America โ can do it.
Carl SaganOnce we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs โ in time, in space, and in potential โ the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors.
Carl SaganA celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Carl SaganThe Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out.
Carl Sagan