For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions. — 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
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
Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“For thousands of years humans were oppressed - as some of us still are - by the notion that the universe is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Is mankind alone in the universe? Or are there somewhere other intelligent beings looking up into their night sky from very different… — 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… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Why is the half of humanity with a special sensitivity to the preciousness of life, the half untainted by testosterone poisoning, almost… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We are, in a way, temporary ambulatory repositories for our nucleic acids. This does not deny our humanity; it does not prevent… — 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
We are rare and precious because we are alive, because we can think as well as we can. We are privileged to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down --… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“We seem to crave privilege, merited not by our works but by our birth, by the mere fact that, say, we are humans and born on Earth. We might call it the anthropocentric - the 'human-centered' - conceit. This conceit is brought close to culmination in the notion that we are created in God's image: The Creator and Ruler of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
The uniqueness of humans has been claimed on many grounds, but most often because of our tool-making, culture, language, reason and morality.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“He argued that we are so helpless at birth that, if the first human infants had been put into the world on… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“For thousands of years humans were oppressed— as some of us still are— by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable. Then, 2,500 years ago, there was a glorious awakening in Ionia: on Samos and the other nearby Greek colonies that grew up among the islands and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
“Vast migrations of people—some voluntary, most not—have shaped the human condition. More of us flee from war, oppression, and famine today than at any other time in human history. As the Earth’s climate changes in the coming decades, there are likely to be far greater numbers of environmental refugees. Better places will always call to us. Tides of people will… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
“If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves. Our very existence in that distant time… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“We succeeded in taking that picture from [deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“But if humans can make new varieties of plants and animals, must not nature do so also? This related process is called… — 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… — 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 not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
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 distance. The word suggests the communication not of thoughts but of feelings, emotions. Around a quarter of all Americans believe they’ve experienced something like telepathy. People who know each other very well, who live together, who… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
“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 extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make up the Milky Way Galaxy which is one of billions of other galaxies which make up a universe which may be one of a very large number, perhaps an infinite number, of other universes. That is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
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
![“We succeeded in taking that picture from [deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident…” quote by Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/018/carl-sagan-160_life_we-succeeded-in-taking-that-picture-from_1533311.jpg)
![“[ 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)
