If we teach only the findings and products of science - no matter how useful and even inspiring they may be -… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Demon mean knowledge in Greek, especially about the material world. Science means knowledge in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence are provided… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The claim is also sometimes made that science is as arbitrary or irrational as all other claims to knowledge, or that reason… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It seems madness to say, 'We're worried that they're going to become addicted to marijuana' -- there's no evidence whatever that it's… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There are many hypotheses in physics of almost comparable brillance and elegance that have been rejected because they did not survive such… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
[N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
...the idea of a spiritual part of our nature that survives death, the notion of an afterlife, ought to be easy for… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single year. If the universe began on January 1st it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate....Try science. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In a complex universe, in a society undergoing unprecedented change, how can we find the truth if we are not willing to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be… — 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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