Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. ... Choose science.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“What is there in the precepts of science that keeps a scientist from doing evil?” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The technological perils that science serves up, its implicit challenge to received wisdom, and its perceived difficulty, are all reasons for some… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Paid product endorsements, especially by real or purported experts, constitute a steady rainfall of deception. They betray contempt for the intelligence of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Humans may crave absolute certainty; they may aspire to it; they may pretend, as partisans of certain religions do, to have attained… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Then science came along and taught us that we are not the measure of all things, that there are wonders unimagined, that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Science is more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking; a way of skeptically interrogating the universe with… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the skeptics, are trying to figure… — 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
“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
Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Those are some of the things that molecules do, given four billion years of evolution” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.' — 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
