It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..." — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo 's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If you look at Earth from space you see a dot, that's here. That's home. That's us. It underscores the responsibility to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group Groups of people from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The Earth is the only world known so far to harbour life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“One consequence of this train of argument is that, even if civilizations commonly arise on planets throughout the Galaxy, few of them… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The scope and audacity of John Kennedy’s May 25, 1961, message to a joint session of Congress on “Urgent National Needs”—the speech… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Consider again that pale blue dot...imagine that you take a good long look at it, imagine that you are starring at it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Ann Druyan suggests an experiment: Look back again at the pale blue dot of the preceding chapter. Take a good long look… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“We succeeded in taking that picture from [deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little about it.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
“Telepathy’ literally means to feel at a distance, just as ‘telephone’ is to hear at a distance and ‘television’ is to see at a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
“On the scale of worlds—to say nothing of stars or galaxies—humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams! — Carl Sagan Copy Share
“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
Any sufficiently crisp question can be answered by a single binary digit-0 or 1, yes or no. — Carl Sagan Copy Share
Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
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