As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this cosmos in which we float, like a mote of dust… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite… — 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
Is mankind alone in the universe? Or are there somewhere other intelligent beings looking up into their night sky from very different… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Every time you look up at the sky, every one of those points of light is a reminder that fusion power is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
At a few hundred kilometers altitude, the Earth fills half your sky, and the band of blue that stretches from Mindanao to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric… — 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… — 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
