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
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
“Sagan is an astronomer with one eye on the stars, another on history, and a third—his mind’s—on the human condition.…” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“It is conventional wisdom now that anything built by the government will be a disaster. But the two "Voyager" spacecraft were built… — 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
“The Cosmos extends, for all practical purposes, forever. After a brief sedentary hiatus, we are resuming our ancient nomadic way of life.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Each of us is a tiny being, permitted to ride on the outermost skin of one of the smaller planets for a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“I grew up in Brooklyn, New York.. a city neighborhood that included houses, lampposts, walls, and bushes. But with an early bedtime… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum star in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“We are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to self-awareness. We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars;… — 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
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
I went to the librarian and asked for a book about stars.... And the answer was stunning. It was that the Sun… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“In its encounter with Nature, science invariably elicits a sense of reverence and awe. The very act of understanding is a celebration… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Across the sea of space. The stars are other suns. We have traveled this way before. And there is much to be… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“There is an idea - strange, haunting, evocative - one of the most exquisite conjectures in science and religion. It is entirely… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“They became upright and taught themselves the use of tools, domesticated other animals, plants and fire, and devised language. The ash of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe,… — 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
What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“[ 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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