Cosmos Quotes by Carl Sagan

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff

— Carl Sagan

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

— Carl Sagan

Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.

— Carl Sagan

Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

— Carl Sagan

The cosmos is all there is, all there ever was, and all there ever will be.

— Carl Sagan

We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos.

— Carl Sagan

Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth.

— Carl Sagan

The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.

— Carl Sagan

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point…

— Carl Sagan

“We are alive and we resonate with idea of life elsewhere, but only careful accumulation and assessment of the evidence can tell…

— Carl Sagan

The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of…

— Carl Sagan

The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths / of exquisite interrelationships / of the awesome machinery of nature

— Carl Sagan

I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this cosmos in which we float, like a mote of dust…

— Carl Sagan

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group.

— Carl Sagan

There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

— Carl Sagan

The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.

— Carl Sagan

“Would we argue that ten thousand target nuclear warheads are likely to enhance the prospect for our survival? What account would we…

— Carl Sagan

Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies…

— Carl Sagan

“Each Voyager is itself a message. In their exploratory intent, in the lofty ambition of their objectives, in their utter lack of…

— Carl Sagan

I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch…

— Carl Sagan

“The total amount of energy from outside the solar system ever received by all the radio telescopes on the planet Earth is…

— Carl Sagan

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were…

— Carl Sagan

Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human…

— 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

The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an…

— Carl Sagan

I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. It's hard to…

— 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

Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human…

— Carl Sagan

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group Groups of people from…

— Carl Sagan

We've begun at last to wonder about our origins, star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms…

— Carl Sagan

Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as…

— Carl Sagan

The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what we know.…

— Carl Sagan

“The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary…

— Carl Sagan

“We inhabit a universe where atoms are made in the centers of stars; where each second a thousand suns are born; where…

— Carl Sagan

“The Cosmos extends, for all practical purposes, forever. After a brief sedentary hiatus, we are resuming our ancient nomadic way of life.…

— Carl Sagan

We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.

— Carl Sagan

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

— Carl Sagan

The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.

— Carl Sagan

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

— Carl Sagan

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

— Carl Sagan