An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By… — 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
I am not an atheist. An atheist is someone who has compelling evidence that there is no Judeo-Christian-Islamic God. I am not… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The Romans called the Christians atheists. Why? Well, the Christians had a god of sorts, but it wasn't a real god. They… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate....Try science. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be… — 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
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
In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need… — 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
Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication, and courage. But… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural.... In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The politicians and the religious leaders and the weapons scientists have been at it for a long time and they've made a… — 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
