“Meanwhile the Cosmos is rich beyond measure: the total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“On Titan the molecules that have been raining down like manna from heaven for the last 4 billion years might still be… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The same few dozen organic molecules are used over and over again in biology for the widest variety of functions.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
My parents were not scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Would we argue that ten thousand target nuclear warheads are likely to enhance the prospect for our survival? What account would we… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The theologian Meric Casaubon argued—in his 1668 book, Of Credulity and Incredulity—that witches must exist because, after all, everyone believes in them.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“I find these comparisons particularly poignant: life versus death, hope versus fear. Space exploration and the highly mechanized destruction of people use… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“If you’re only sceptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You never learn anything. You become a crochety misanthrope… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain laws and constants of nature are consistent… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Science thrives on errors, cutting them away one by one. False conclusions are drawn all the time, but they are drawn tentatively.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Just as there are those who accept every UFO report at face value, there are also those who dismiss the idea of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Another glorious feature of many modern science museums is a movie theater showing IMAX or OMNIMAX films. In some cases the screen… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“What do we really want from religion? Palliatives? Therapy? Comfort? Do we want reassuring fables or an understanding of our actual circumstances?… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder. It's a very powerful emotion. All children feel it.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The fact that so little of the findings of modern science is prefigured in Scripture to my mind casts further doubt on… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Demon” means “knowledge” in Greek. “Science” means “knowledge” in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood—except” — 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
I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“New generations grew to maturity wholly ignorant of the sky that had transfixed their ancestors and that had stimulated the modern age… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“El reduccionismo no parece conceder un respeto suficiente a la complejidad del universo. A algunos se les antoja como un híbrido curioso… — 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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