We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. Dr. Carl Sagan American Astronomer More Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes 2
It's better to light a candle then to curse the darkness. Dr. Carl Sagan American Astronomer More Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes 1
You have to know the past to understand the present. Dr. Carl Sagan American Astronomer More Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes 1
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think its forever. Dr. Carl Sagan American Astronomer More Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes 1
We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has stopped. Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation. Dr. Carl Sagan American Astronomer More Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes 1
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. Dr. Carl Sagan American Astronomer More Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes 1
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Dr. Carl Sagan American Astronomer More Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes 1
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. Dr. Carl Sagan American Astronomer More Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes 0
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. Dr. Carl Sagan American Astronomer More Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes 0
The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit. Dr. Carl Sagan American Astronomer More Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes 0
It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. Dr. Carl Sagan American Astronomer More Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes 0
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. Dr. Carl Sagan American Astronomer More Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes 0
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. Dr. Carl Sagan American Astronomer More Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes 0
When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you never forget it. Dr. Carl Sagan American Astronomer More Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes 0
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out. Dr. Carl Sagan American Astronomer More Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes 0
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. Dr. Carl Sagan American Astronomer More Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes 0
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Dr. Carl Sagan American Astronomer More Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes 0
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? Dr. Carl Sagan American Astronomer More Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes 0
The wind whips through the canyons of the American Southwest, and there is no one to hear it but us - a reminder of the 40,000 generations of thinking men and women who preceded us, about whom we know almost nothing, upon whom our civilization is based. Dr. Carl Sagan American Astronomer More Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes 0
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true. Dr. Carl Sagan American Astronomer More Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes 0
The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls. So. Dr. Carl Sagan American Astronomer More Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes 0
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. Dr. Carl Sagan American Astronomer More Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes 0
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. Dr. Carl Sagan American Astronomer More Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes 0
I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Dr. Carl Sagan American Astronomer More Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes 0