Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“When you're in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting my lifelong love affair with… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo 's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The theologian Meric Casaubon argued—in his 1668 book, Of Credulity and Incredulity—that witches must exist because, after all, everyone believes in them.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“That's what this book is about: other worlds, what awaits us on them, what they tell us about ourselves, and - given… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Edmund Way Teale in his 1950 book Circle of the Seasons understood the dilemma better: It is morally as bad not to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“More recently, books, especially paperbacks, have been printed in massive and inexpensive editions. For the price of a modest meal you can… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across… — 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
“At the Stourbridge Fair in 1663, at age twenty, he purchased a book on astrology, “out of a curiosity to see what… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“More praise for The Demon-Haunted World “As I close this eloquent and fascinating book, I recall the final chapter title from one… — 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… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Books, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accuracy; to tap the wisdom of our species; to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Or consider a story in the Jewish Talmud left out of the Book of Genesis. (It is in doubtful accord with the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“the aging and grumpy Plato, in Book VII of the Laws, gave his definition of scientific illiteracy: Who is unable to count… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“For the price of a modest meal you can ponder the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, the origin of species,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“For 99 percent of the tenure of humans on earth, nobody could read or write. The great invention had not yet been… — 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
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
![“I grew up in Brooklyn, New York.. a city neighborhood that included houses, lampposts, walls, and bushes. But with an early bedtime in the winter, I could look out my window and see the stars, and the stars were not like anything else in my neighborhood. [At age 5] I didn’t know what they were…” quote by Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d82/carl-sagan-160_astronomy_i-grew-up-in-brooklyn-new-york-a-city-ne_799412.jpg)
![“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion, why do you not believe in materialistic science, which has an unparalleled record of fulfilled prophecy? Consider, for example, eclipses.” quote by Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/875/carl-sagan-160_belief_when-a-religious-couple-wrote-to-sagan-a_25095.jpg)
