If you want to make a [rhubarb] pie from scratch, first you have to create the universe. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of thinking: a way of skeptically interrogating the universe. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Every cell is a triumph of natural selection, and we’re made of trillions of cells. Within us, is a little universe. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We live in an in-between universe where things change all right...but according to patterns, rules, or as we call them, laws of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without… — 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 Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence is provided… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In a complex universe, in a society undergoing unprecedented change, how can we find the truth if we are not willing to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
(When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out… — 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
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
“universe is almost incompatible with life—or at least what we understand as necessary for life: Even if every star in a hundred… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been? — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There are more potential combinations of DNA [physical forms] than there are atoms in the universe. — 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
She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We are...capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth, to make an abundant and meaningful life for… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There are in fact 100 billion galaxies, each of which contain something like a 100 billion stars. Think of how many stars,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Except for hydrogen, all the atoms that make each of us up—the iron in our blood, the calcium in our bones, the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“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
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used… — 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
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Where did God come from? If we decide this is an unanswerable question why not save a step and conclude that the… — 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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