World Quotes by Carl Sagan

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

— Carl Sagan

There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

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How lucky we are to live in this time / the first moment in human history / when we are in fact…

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we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers

— Carl Sagan

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

— Carl Sagan

No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very…

— Carl Sagan

Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.

— Carl Sagan

Organic as a dandelion seed, [the ship of our imagination] will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts

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Demon mean knowledge in Greek, especially about the material world. Science means knowledge in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if…

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But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain,…

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A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old,…

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A general problem with much of Western theology in my view is that the god portrayed is too small. It is a…

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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an…

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Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become…

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After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun,…

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

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

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Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become…

— Carl Sagan

Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human…

— Carl Sagan

Quickly capping 363 oil well fires in a war zone is impossible. The fires would burn out of control until they put…

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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

The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of…

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If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You become a crotchety old person convinced that…

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We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What…

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Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years…

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In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to…

— Carl Sagan

Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.

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It is clear that the nations of the world now can only rise and fall together. It is not a question of…

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Maybe it's a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds - promising untold opportunities - beckon.…

— Carl Sagan

The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only…

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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city…

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The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity…

— Carl Sagan

A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species…

— Carl Sagan

There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the…

— Carl Sagan

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about…

— Carl Sagan

In more than one respect, the exploring of the Solar System and homesteading other worlds constitutes the beginning, much more than the…

— Carl Sagan

Time spent with children is time well spent. Their little minds are not constrained by 'reality' or focused upon goals. Anything and…

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A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in…

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Is mankind alone in the universe? Or are there somewhere other intelligent beings looking up into their night sky from very different…

— Carl Sagan

Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from…

— Carl Sagan