Nature Quotes by Carl Sagan

“The book of Nature had waited more than a millennium for a reader.”

— Carl Sagan

There is never only ONE of anything in nature.

— Carl Sagan

The Earth is a place. It is by no means the only place. It is not even a typical place.

— Carl Sagan

If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go

— Carl Sagan

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

— Carl Sagan

The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

— Carl Sagan

A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself…

— Carl Sagan

Nature does not always conform to our predispositions and preferences, to what we deem comfortable and easy to understand.

— Carl Sagan

The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths / of exquisite interrelationships / of the awesome machinery of nature

— Carl Sagan

“Natural selection has served as a kind of intellectual sieve, producing brains and intelligences increasingly competent to deal with the laws of…

— Carl Sagan

You mustn't think of the Universe as a wilderness. It hasn't been that for billions of years," he said. "Think of it…

— Carl Sagan

The evidence, so far at least and laws of Nature aside, does not require a Designer. Maybe there is one hiding, maddeningly…

— Carl Sagan

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

In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.

— Carl Sagan

“...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

“If the laws of nature are unpredictably reassorted at the cusps (the transition from contraction to expansion of the universe), then it…

— Carl Sagan

“The evidence, so far at least and laws of Nature aside, does not require a Designer. Maybe there is one hiding, maddeningly…

— Carl Sagan

Centuries hence, when current social and political problems may seem as remote as the problems of the Thirty Years' War are to…

— Carl Sagan

A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself…

— Carl Sagan

“For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations, as in ancient Greece in the time…

— Carl Sagan

“Kepler and Newton represent a critical transition in human history, the discovery that fairly simple mathematical laws pervade all of Nature; that…

— Carl Sagan

“More recently, books, especially paperbacks, have been printed in massive and inexpensive editions. For the price of a modest meal you can…

— Carl Sagan

“Books, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accuracy; to tap the wisdom of our species; to…

— Carl Sagan

“There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain laws and constants of nature are consistent…

— Carl Sagan

“In its encounter with Nature, science invariably elicits a sense of reverence and awe. The very act of understanding is a celebration…

— Carl Sagan

“If the structure of the world with all its order and beauty is only an effect of matter left to its own…

— Carl Sagan

...the idea of a spiritual part of our nature that survives death, the notion of an afterlife, ought to be easy for…

— Carl Sagan

“But before the grandeur and intricacy of Nature, he was, like Ptolemy and Kepler, exhilarated as well as disarmingly modest. Just before…

— Carl Sagan

“We embarked on our journey to the stars with a question first framed in the childhood of our species and in each…

— Carl Sagan

Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as…

— Carl Sagan

“The laws of nature cannot be randomly reshuffled at the cusps [of an oscillating universe]. If the universe has already gone through…

— Carl Sagan

“Telepathy’ literally means to feel at a distance, just as ‘telephone’ is to hear at a distance and ‘television’ is to see…

— Carl Sagan

“The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those…

— Carl Sagan

“For 99 percent of the tenure of humans on earth, nobody could read or write. The great invention had not yet been…

— Carl Sagan

“Fireflies out on a warm summer's night, seeing the urgent, flashing, yellow-white phosphorescence below them, go crazy with desire; moths cast to…

— Carl Sagan

“We live in an extraordinary age. These are times of stunning changes in social organization, economic well-being, moral and ethical precepts, philosophical…

— Carl Sagan

We live in an in-between universe where things change all right...but according to patterns, rules, or as we call them, laws of…

— Carl Sagan

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

— Carl Sagan

A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in…

— Carl Sagan

The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my…

— Carl Sagan