“It is pointless to worry about the possible malevolent intentions of an advanced civilization with whom we might make contact. It is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is a lurking fear that some things are not “meant" to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Mars has become a kind of mythic arena onto which we have projected our earthly hopes and fears. But our psychological predispositions… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“I find these comparisons particularly poignant: life versus death, hope versus fear. Space exploration and the highly mechanized destruction of people use… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught up in a powerful emotion -… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Once we lose our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe which dwarfs… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has… — 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
![“[ 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)
