Moon Quotes by Carl Sagan

Every star may be a sun to someone.

— Carl Sagan

When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.

— Carl Sagan

In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.

— Carl Sagan

A single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence. . . . It is possible…

— Carl Sagan

“The Man in the Moon is in fact a record of ancient catastrophes--most of which took place before humans, before mammals, and…

— Carl Sagan

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or…

— Carl Sagan

“It never happens that a new constellation suddenly rises out of the east. There is an order, a predictability, a permanence about…

— Carl Sagan

Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling…

— Carl Sagan

“For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that…

— Carl Sagan

Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric…

— Carl Sagan

The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of…

— Carl Sagan

Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more…

— Carl Sagan

“The scope and audacity of John Kennedy’s May 25, 1961, message to a joint session of Congress on “Urgent National Needs”—the speech…

— Carl Sagan