“Natural selection has served as a kind of intellectual sieve, producing brains and intelligences increasingly competent to deal with the laws of… — 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
Nature does not always conform to our predispositions and preferences, to what we deem comfortable and easy to understand. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The evidence, so far at least and laws of Nature aside, does not require a Designer. Maybe there is one hiding, maddeningly… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“...there is no deeper religious feeling than the feeling for the natural world. I wouldn't separate the world of nature from the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“More recently, books, especially paperbacks, have been printed in massive and inexpensive editions. For the price of a modest meal you can… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Kepler and Newton represent a critical transition in human history, the discovery that fairly simple mathematical laws pervade all of Nature; that… — 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
A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself… — 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 evidence, so far at least and laws of Nature aside, does not require a Designer. Maybe there is one hiding, maddeningly… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“If the laws of nature are unpredictably reassorted at the cusps (the transition from contraction to expansion of the universe), then it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“In its encounter with Nature, science invariably elicits a sense of reverence and awe. The very act of understanding is a celebration… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain laws and constants of nature are consistent… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Books, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accuracy; to tap the wisdom of our species; to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“But before the grandeur and intricacy of Nature, he was, like Ptolemy and Kepler, exhilarated as well as disarmingly modest. Just before… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
...the idea of a spiritual part of our nature that survives death, the notion of an afterlife, ought to be easy for… — 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)
