The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been? — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“These days, there seems to be nowhere left to explore. Victims of their very success, the explorers now, pretty much, stay home.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths / of exquisite interrelationships / of the awesome machinery of nature — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
An atheist has to know more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no God. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
But down deep, at the molecular heart of life we're essentially identical to trees. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false). — 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
