It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
All of the rocky and metallic material we stand on, the iron in our blood, the calcium in our teeth, the carbon… — 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
We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Every cell is a triumph of natural selection, and we’re made of trillions of cells. Within us, is a little universe. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We are made of star stuff. For the most part, atoms heavier than hydrogen were created in the interiors of stars and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Centuries hence, when current social and political problems may seem as remote as the problems of the Thirty Years' War are to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what we know.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We are made of star-stuff. Our bodies are made of star-stuff. There are pieces of star within us all. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The politicians and the religious leaders and the weapons scientists have been at it for a long time and they've made a… — 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
![“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion, why do you not believe in materialistic science, which has an unparalleled record of fulfilled prophecy? Consider, for example, eclipses.” quote by Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/875/carl-sagan-160_belief_when-a-religious-couple-wrote-to-sagan-a_25095.jpg)
