Books Quotes by Carl Sagan

Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.

— Carl Sagan

To read is to voyage through time.

— Carl Sagan

What an astonishing thing a book is.

— Carl Sagan

A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

— Carl Sagan

I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.

— Carl Sagan

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

— Carl Sagan

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

“The book of Nature had waited more than a millennium for a reader.”

— Carl Sagan

“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

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.

— Carl Sagan

“Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”

— Carl Sagan

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

— Carl Sagan

“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

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

— Carl Sagan

“Edmund Way Teale in his 1950 book Circle of the Seasons understood the dilemma better: It is morally as bad not to…

— Carl Sagan

“That's what this book is about: other worlds, what awaits us on them, what they tell us about ourselves, and - given…

— Carl Sagan

If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of…

— Carl Sagan

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

— Carl Sagan

It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo 's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read…

— Carl Sagan

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break…

— Carl Sagan

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

I went to the librarian and asked for a book about stars… And the answer was stunning. It was that the Sun…

— Carl Sagan

“At the Stourbridge Fair in 1663, at age twenty, he purchased a book on astrology, “out of a curiosity to see what…

— Carl Sagan

“More recently, books, especially paperbacks, have been printed in massive and inexpensive editions. For the price of a modest meal you can…

— Carl Sagan

“One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across…

— Carl Sagan

'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If…

— Carl Sagan

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

“Books, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accuracy; to tap the wisdom of our species; to…

— Carl Sagan

A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented…

— Carl Sagan

“For 99 percent of the tenure of humans on earth, nobody could read or write. The great invention had not yet been…

— Carl Sagan

“Or consider a story in the Jewish Talmud left out of the Book of Genesis. (It is in doubtful accord with the…

— Carl Sagan

“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

“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

“I grew up in Brooklyn, New York.. a city neighborhood that included houses, lampposts, walls, and bushes. But with an early bedtime…

— Carl Sagan

Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else.

— Carl Sagan

“For the price of a modest meal you can ponder the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, the origin of species,…

— Carl Sagan

“the aging and grumpy Plato, in Book VII of the Laws, gave his definition of scientific illiteracy: Who is unable to count…

— Carl Sagan

“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and…

— Carl Sagan