Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Organic as a dandelion seed, [the ship of our imagination] will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts — 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… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“And were the vision of Democritus to have been adopted by Western civilization, instead of being cast aside for the pale views… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Which aspects of our nature will prevail is uncertain, particularly when our visions and prospects are bound to one small part of… — 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
You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I’m struck again by the irony that spaceflight-conceived in the cauldron of nationalist rivalries and hatreds-brings with it a stunning transnational vision.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The Somnium makes clear to us, although it did not to all of Kepler’s contemporaries, that “in a dream one must be… — 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
“To make a contented slave,’ [Frederick] Bailey later wrote, ‘it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“I do not think it irresponsible to portray even the direst futures if we are to avoid them we must understand that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Dreams are associated with a state called REM sleep, the abbreviation standing for rapid eye movement. The REM state is strongly correlated… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Darwin’s transcendantly democratic insight that all humans are descended from the same non-human ancestors, that we are all members of one family,… — 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
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![“To make a contented slave,’ [Frederick] Bailey later wrote, ‘it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.’ This is why the slaveholders must control what slaves hear and see and think…” quote by Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9e0/carl-sagan-160_critical-thinking_to-make-a-contented-slave-frederick-bail_1690816.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)
