Religion Quotes by Carl Sagan

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

— Carl Sagan

“Our God Is Alive and Well. Sorry About Yours.”

— Carl Sagan

[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.

— Carl Sagan

It means nothing to be open to a proposition we don't understand.

— Carl Sagan

For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.

— Carl Sagan

If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate…Try science.

— Carl Sagan

You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human…

— Carl Sagan

We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain…

— Carl Sagan

“Their position seems to be that their God is so great he doesn't even have to exist.”

— Carl Sagan

The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work.

— Carl Sagan

At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.

— Carl Sagan

Science is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

— Carl Sagan

The politicians and the religious leaders and the weapons scientists have been at it for a long time and they've made a…

— Carl Sagan

Probably a dozen times since their death I've heard my mother or father, in an ordinary conversational tone of voice, call my…

— Carl Sagan

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside,…

— Carl Sagan

In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished…

— Carl Sagan

Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against…

— Carl Sagan

“...You think if I haven't had your religious experience I can't appreciate the magnificence of your god. But it's just the opposite.…

— Carl Sagan

The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense,…

— Carl Sagan

My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence is provided…

— Carl Sagan

...the idea of a spiritual part of our nature that survives death, the notion of an afterlife, ought to be easy for…

— Carl Sagan

Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important…

— Carl Sagan

Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural… In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills…

— Carl Sagan

(When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the…

— Carl Sagan

“The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty…

— Carl Sagan

My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence are provided…

— Carl Sagan

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe…

— Carl Sagan

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity…

— Carl Sagan

“Does trying to understand the universe at all betray a lack of humility ? I believe it is true that humility is…

— Carl Sagan

“A new concept of god: “something not very different from the sum total of the physical laws of the universe; that is,…

— Carl Sagan

“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

“There is an idea - strange, haunting, evocative - one of the most exquisite conjectures in science and religion. It is entirely…

— Carl Sagan

“You see, the religious people — most of them — really think this planet is an experiment. That's what their beliefs come…

— Carl Sagan

“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

“I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will…

— Carl Sagan

The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.

— Carl Sagan

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts…

— Carl Sagan

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

— Carl Sagan

In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

— Carl Sagan

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

— Carl Sagan