Inspirational Quotes by Carl Sagan

We were wanderers from the beginning.

— Carl Sagan

We are all made up of star stuff.

— Carl Sagan

What an astonishing thing a book is.

— Carl Sagan

We are made of starstuff.

— Carl Sagan

To read is to voyage through time.

— Carl Sagan

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

— Carl Sagan

Atheism is very stupid.

— Carl Sagan

We are the universe experiencing itself.

— Carl Sagan

The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it

— Carl Sagan

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

— Carl Sagan

Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience.

— Carl Sagan

UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable.

— Carl Sagan

The universe forces those who live in it to understand it.

— Carl Sagan

The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths.

— Carl Sagan

Otherwise we don't run the government the government runs us

— Carl Sagan

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

— Carl Sagan

The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work.

— Carl Sagan

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

— Carl Sagan

The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.

— Carl Sagan

Any sufficiently crisp question can be answered by a single binary digit-0 or 1, yes or no.

— Carl Sagan

The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.

— Carl Sagan

An atheist has to know more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no God.

— Carl Sagan

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

— Carl Sagan

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

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to…

— Carl Sagan

“Our particular causality scheme has brought us to a modest and rudimentary, although in many respects heroic, series of explorations. But it…

— Carl Sagan

“It is conventional wisdom now that anything built by the government will be a disaster. But the two "Voyager" spacecraft were built…

— 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

“I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will…

— Carl Sagan

“These days, there seems to be nowhere left to explore. Victims of their very success, the explorers now, pretty much, stay home.…

— Carl Sagan

Valid criticism does you a favor.

— Carl Sagan

Billions and billions.

— Carl Sagan

Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

— Carl Sagan

We are one species. We are starstuff.

— Carl Sagan

Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.

— Carl Sagan

We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.

— Carl Sagan

It means nothing to be open to a proposition we don't understand.

— Carl Sagan

All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.

— Carl Sagan

If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.

— Carl Sagan

Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

— Carl Sagan