For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Any sufficiently crisp question can be answered by a single binary digit-0 or 1, yes or no. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false). — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In all our searching, the only thing weve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“When you're in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting my lifelong love affair with… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness… — 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… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“What if, despite all our pretense and disguise, it was necessary to appear in public with the person we loved most of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“If the one-year-old, the five-year-old, the twelve-year-old, and the twenty-year-old all find compatible personalities in the beloved, there is a real chance… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations, as in ancient Greece in the time… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We invest far off places with a certain romance... Long summers, mild winters, rich harvests, plentiful game; none of them lasts for… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Why do we put up with it? Do we like to be criticized? No, no scientist enjoys it. Every scientist feels a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“She began to understand why lovers talk baby talk to one another. There was no other socially acceptable circumstance in which the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Some women, it seemed, were entirely without guile and bestowed their affections with hardly a moment's conscious thought. Others set out to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it’s different. Consider again that… — 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
“That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot.… — 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