Humans Quotes by Carl Sagan

Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television.

— Carl Sagan

The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

— Carl Sagan

Football is a thinly disguised re-enactment of hunting; we played it before we were human.

— Carl Sagan

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

— Carl Sagan

Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.

— Carl Sagan

For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.

— Carl Sagan

Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.

— Carl Sagan

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

— Carl Sagan

Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe.

— Carl Sagan

The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where…

— Carl Sagan

If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.

— Carl Sagan

Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.

— Carl Sagan

The understanding of the intent of the artist which I can achieve when high sometimes carries over to when I’m down. This…

— Carl Sagan

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred…

— 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

Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the…

— Carl Sagan

Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague,…

— Carl Sagan

The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared…

— Carl Sagan

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break…

— Carl Sagan

A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species…

— Carl Sagan

By exploring other worlds we safeguard this one. By itself, I think this fact more than justifies the money our species has…

— Carl Sagan

The uniqueness of humans has been claimed on many grounds, but most often because of our tool-making, culture, language, reason and morality.…

— Carl Sagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how…

— Carl Sagan

Because men, compared to male chimps, have such relatively small testicles (large testicles indicate a species where many males mate, one after…

— Carl Sagan

“Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago.…

— Carl Sagan

In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to…

— Carl Sagan

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they…

— Carl Sagan

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not…

— Carl Sagan

The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single year. If the universe began on January 1st it…

— Carl Sagan

In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success,…

— 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

A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented…

— Carl Sagan

Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

— Carl Sagan

For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.

— Carl Sagan

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

— Carl Sagan

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used…

— Carl Sagan

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are…

— Carl Sagan

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

— Carl Sagan

We humans look rather different from a tree. Without a doubt we perceive the world differently than a tree does. But down…

— Carl Sagan

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

— Carl Sagan