Century Quotes by Carl Sagan

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

— Carl Sagan

In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of…

— Carl Sagan

If the constellations had been named in the twentieth century, I suppose we would see bicycles and refrigerators in the sky.

— Carl Sagan

In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished…

— Carl Sagan

Centuries hence, when current social and political problems may seem as remote as the problems of the Thirty Years' War are to…

— Carl Sagan

Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to…

— Carl Sagan

He sought a way to preserve the past. John Hershel was one of the founders of a new form of time travel……

— Carl Sagan

Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove…

— Carl Sagan

The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their…

— Carl Sagan

Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the…

— Carl Sagan

Teller contended, not implausibly, that hydrogen bombs keep the peace, or at least prevent thermonuclear war, because the consequences of warfare between…

— Carl Sagan

I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most…

— Carl Sagan