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title: "45 Carl Sagan Quotes by 34 authors"
description: "Browse 45 Carl Sagan quotes by 34 authors. Discover the best Carl Sagan sayings and thoughts."
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> [“As Carl Sagan said, “Observation: I can’t see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathalia-holt/as-carl-sagan-said-observation-i-can-t-see-a-thing-conclusion/)

[Nathalia Holt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathalia-holt/)

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> [“Extinction is the rule, survival is the exception. ~ Carl Sagan, Ph.D.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bobby-akart/extinction-is-the-rule-survival-is-the-exception-carl-sagan-ph-d/)

[Bobby Akart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bobby-akart/)

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> [I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whoopi-goldberg/i-want-carl-sagan-to-explain-the-sky-to-me/)

[Whoopi Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whoopi-goldberg/)

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> [“Given a hundred clones of Carl Sagan, we might have some hope for the next century.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/given-a-hundred-clones-of-carl-sagan-we-might-have-some-hope-for-the/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [“Carl Sagan said we are all made of stardust. She was made of book dust.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-guillebeau/carl-sagan-said-we-are-all-made-of-stardust-she-was-made-of-book-dust/)

[Michael Guillebeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-guillebeau/)

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> [“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere - Carl Sagan”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-garp/imagination-will-often-carry-us-to-worlds-that-never-were-but-without-2/)

[T.S. Garp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-garp/)

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> [It turns out one of my dad's best friends was Carl Sagan when I was little. They were both Harvard professors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-grinspoon/it-turns-out-one-of-my-dad-s-best-friends-was-carl-sagan-when-i-was/)

[David Grinspoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-grinspoon/)

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> [If you look up at the Milky Way through the eyes of Carl Sagan, you get a feeling in your chest of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/if-you-look-up-at-the-milky-way-through-the-eyes-of-carl-sagan-you/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [I met Carl Sagan quite a few times - a fantastic and amazing person. I love him. Neil deGrasse Tyson is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-max/i-met-carl-sagan-quite-a-few-times-a-fantastic-and-amazing-person-i/)

[Peter Max](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-max/)

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> [“In a slick manifesto called Cosmos, Carl Sagan artfully packaged his own creed: “The Cosmos is all there is, or was, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-w-colson/in-a-slick-manifesto-called-cosmos-carl-sagan-artfully-packaged-his/)

[Charles W. Colson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-w-colson/)

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> ['Carl Sagan: A Life,' though a riveting tale, tells as much about the all-too-human feelings of jealousy and resentment as it does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-porco/carl-sagan-a-life-though-a-riveting-tale-tells-as-much-about-the-all/)

[Carolyn Porco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-porco/)

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> [Mythology is about Good VS Evil, is it not? We can pretend runes and astrology and reading tea leaves...But to whom do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steakley/mythology-is-about-good-vs-evil-is-it-not-we-can-pretend-runes-and/)

[John Steakley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steakley/)

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> [“According to Carl Sagan: "Maxwell's equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-thomas/according-to-carl-sagan-maxwell-s-equations-have-had-a-greater-impact/)

[Andrew Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-thomas/)

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> [The true scientific understanding of the nature of existence is so utterly fascinating; how could you not want people to share it?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-true-scientific-understanding-of-the-nature-of-existence-is-so/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. -this quote is actually found in Carl…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/by-all-means-let-s-be-open-minded-but-not-so-open-minded-that-our-2/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [By my reckoning, I'm about 100 kilometers from Pathfinder. Technically it's called “Carl Sagan Memorial Station.” But with all due respect to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-weir/by-my-reckoning-i-m-about-100-kilometers-from-pathfinder-technically/)

[Andy Weir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-weir/)

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> [I think I set myself on a course to become a scientist around about the time that Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos' series was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alastair-reynolds/i-think-i-set-myself-on-a-course-to-become-a-scientist-around-about/)

[Alastair Reynolds](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alastair-reynolds/)

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> [The book that blew the doors off the house, grabbing me with its breathtakingly deep and irresistible view of the universe and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-porco/the-book-that-blew-the-doors-off-the-house-grabbing-me-with-its/)

[Carolyn Porco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-porco/)

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> [“Asimov was a long-time member and Vice President of Mensa International, albeit reluctantly; he described some members of that organization as "brain-proud…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/asimov-was-a-long-time-member-and-vice-president-of-mensa/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Carl Sagan always used to say that when he was trying to explain something to someone, he would go back to that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-druyan/carl-sagan-always-used-to-say-that-when-he-was-trying-to-explain/)

[Ann Druyan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-druyan/)

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> [“Skeptical scientists often point out, as Carl Sagan has, that the wonders of real science far surpass the supposed wonders of fringe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-crichton/skeptical-scientists-often-point-out-as-carl-sagan-has-that-the/)

[Michael Crichton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-crichton/)

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> [“I am a collection of water, calcium and organic molecules called Carl Sagan. You are a collection of almost identical molecules with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-sagan/i-am-a-collection-of-water-calcium-and-organic-molecules-called-carl-2/)

[Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-sagan/)

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> [The past history of human belief is a cautionary tale. We have killed thousands of our fellow human beings because we believed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-crichton/the-past-history-of-human-belief-is-a-cautionary-tale-we-have-killed/)

[Michael Crichton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-crichton/)

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> [I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-druyan/i-remember-that-one-time-carl-sagan-was-giving-a-talk-and-he-spelled/)

[Ann Druyan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-druyan/)

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> [As my old professor Carl Sagan said so often, 'When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.’ And I base…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-nye/as-my-old-professor-carl-sagan-said-so-often-when-you-re-in-love-you/)

[Bill Nye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-nye/)

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> [The issue, as correctly emphasized by Carl Sagan, is the probability of the evolution of high intelligence and an electronic civilization on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernst-mayr/the-issue-as-correctly-emphasized-by-carl-sagan-is-the-probability-of/)

[Ernst Mayr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernst-mayr/)

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> [“A human being weighing 70 kilograms contains among other things: -45 litres of water -Enough chalk to whiten a chicken pen -Enough…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erlend-loe/a-human-being-weighing-70-kilograms-contains-among-other-things-45/)

[Erlend Loe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erlend-loe/)

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> [Originating with such figures as T. H. Huxley, who sought to bring Darwin's ideas to the masses, the popular science genre moved…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-di-filippo/originating-with-such-figures-as-t-h-huxley-who-sought-to-bring/)

[Paul Di Filippo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-di-filippo/)

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> [My general impression about people like Steve Gould and Carl Sagan and so on is that when they disappear as individuals and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lewontin/my-general-impression-about-people-like-steve-gould-and-carl-sagan/)

[Richard Lewontin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-lewontin/)

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> [“For Dawkins, atheism is a necessary consequence of evolution. He has argued that the religious impulse is simply an evolutionary mistake, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/for-dawkins-atheism-is-a-necessary-consequence-of-evolution-he-has/)

[Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-armstrong/)

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> [“I am a collection of water, calcium and organic molecules called Carl Sagan. You are a collection of almost identical molecules with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-sagan/i-am-a-collection-of-water-calcium-and-organic-molecules-called-carl/)

[Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-sagan/)

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> [“Materialism is a conviction based not upon evidence or logic but upon what Carl Sagan (speaking of another kind of faith) called…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bentley-hart/materialism-is-a-conviction-based-not-upon-evidence-or-logic-but-upon/)

[David Bentley Hart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-bentley-hart/)

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> [“CARL SAGAN SAID that if you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. When he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicola-yoon/carl-sagan-said-that-if-you-want-to-make-an-apple-pie-from-scratch/)

[Nicola Yoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicola-yoon/)

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> [“I think that when you consider the beauty of the world and you wonder how it came to be what it is,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/i-think-that-when-you-consider-the-beauty-of-the-world-and-you-wonder/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [“A saving grace of the human condition (if I may phrase it like that) is a sense of humor. Many writers and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/a-saving-grace-of-the-human-condition-if-i-may-phrase-it-like-that-is/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [I agree, along with Carl Sagan, that we should eventually become a two planet species. Life is too precious to place on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michio-kaku/i-agree-along-with-carl-sagan-that-we-should-eventually-become-a-two/)

[Michio Kaku](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michio-kaku/)

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> [“My kind of Supreme Being would rather that people worship no gods than false gods and would prefer eternal discourse with Carl…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/my-kind-of-supreme-being-would-rather-that-people-worship-no-gods/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“as astronomer Carl Sagan once aptly put it, you do not want to keep your mind so open that your brain is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/massimo-pigliucci/as-astronomer-carl-sagan-once-aptly-put-it-you-do-not-want-to-keep/)

[Massimo Pigliucci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/massimo-pigliucci/)

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> [“My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings—what we sometimes call “mind”—are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michio-kaku/my-fundamental-premise-about-the-brain-is-that-its-workings-what-we/)

[Michio Kaku](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michio-kaku/)

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> [The disturbing truth about science communication is that we have theories and ways of delivering messages that really are like putting a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kyle-hill/the-disturbing-truth-about-science-communication-is-that-we-have/)

[Kyle Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kyle-hill/)

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## Top authors on Carl Sagan

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-richard-dawkins-78503.jpg) Richard Dawkins 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/carl-sagan/richard-dawkins/)

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                        "text": "“For Dawkins, atheism is a necessary consequence of evolution. He has argued that the religious impulse is simply an evolutionary mistake, a ‘misfiring of something useful’, it is a kind if virus, parasitic on cognitive systems naturally selected because they had enabled a species to survive. Dawkins is an extreme exponent of the scientific naturalism, originally formulated by d’Holbach, that has now become a major worldview among intellectuals. More moderate versions of this “scientism” have been articulated by Carl Sagan, Steven Weinberg, and Daniel Dennett, who have all claimed that one has to choose between science and faith. For Dennett, theology has been rendered superfluous, because biology can provide a better explanation of why people are religious. But for Dawkins, like the other “new atheists” – Sam Harris, the young American philosopher and student of neuroscience, and Christopher Hitchens, critic and journalist – religion is the cause of the problems of our world; it is the source of absolute evil and “poisons everything.” They see themselves in the vanguard of a scientific/rational movement that will eventually expunge the idea of God from human consciousness. But other atheists and scientists are wary of this approach. The American zoologist Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) followed Monod in his discussion of the implications of evolution. Everything in the natural world could indeed be explained by natural selection, but Gould insisted that science was not competent to decide whether God did or did not exist, because it could only work with natural explanations. Gould had no religious axe to grind; he described himself as an atheistically inclined agnostic, but pointed out that Darwin himself had denied he was an atheist and that other eminent Darwinians - Asa Gray, Charles D. Walcott, G. G. Simpson, and Theodosius Dobzhansky - had been either practicing Christians or agnostics. Atheism did not, therefore, seem to be a necessary consequence of accepting evolutionary theory, and Darwinians who held forth dogmatically on the subject were stepping beyond the limitations that were proper to science.”",
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                        "text": "“I am a collection of water, calcium and organic molecules called Carl Sagan. You are a collection of almost identical molecules with a different collective label. But is that all? Is there nothing in here but molecules? Some people find this idea somehow demeaning to human dignity. For myself, I find it elevating that our universe permits the evolution of molecular machines as intricate and subtle as we. But the essence of life is not so much the atoms and simple molecules that make us up as the way in which they are put together. Every now and then we read that the chemicals which constitute the human body cost ninety-seven cents or ten dollars or some such figure; it is a little depressing to find our bodies valued so little. However, these estimates are for human beings reduced to our simplest possible components. We are made mostly of water, which costs almost nothing; the carbon is costed in the form of coal; the calcium in our bones as chalk; the nitrogen in our proteins as air (cheap also); the iron in our blood as rusty nails. If we did not know better, we might be tempted to take all the atoms that make us up, mix them together in a big container and stir. We can do this as much as we want. But in the end all we have is a tedious mixture of atoms. How could we have expected anything else?”",
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                        "text": "“I think that when you consider the beauty of the world and you wonder how it came to be what it is, you are naturally overwhelmed with a feeling of awe, a feeling of admiration and you almost feel a desire to worship something. I feel this, I recognise that other scientists such as Carl Sagan feel this, Einstein felt it. We, all of us, share a kind of religious reverence for the beauties of the universe, for the complexity of life. For the sheer magnitude of the cosmos, the sheer magnitude of geological time. And it’s tempting to translate that feeling of awe and worship into a desire to worship some particular thing, a person, an agent. You want to attribute it to a maker, to a creator. What science has now achieved is an emancipation from that impulse to attribute these things to a creator. -- God Delusion debate Professor Richard Dawkins vs John Lennox”",
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