Pale blue dot Quotes by Carl Sagan

If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.

— Carl Sagan

Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.

— Carl Sagan

Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find…

— Carl Sagan

The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.

— Carl Sagan

“It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little about it.”

— Carl Sagan

It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.

— Carl Sagan

There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

— Carl Sagan

Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

— Carl Sagan

The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary…

— Carl Sagan

It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo 's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read…

— Carl Sagan

If you look at Earth from space you see a dot, that's here. That's home. That's us. It underscores the responsibility to…

— Carl Sagan

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe…

— Carl Sagan

Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly…

— Carl Sagan

Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human…

— Carl Sagan

Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and…

— Carl Sagan

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point…

— Carl Sagan

“The Earth is the only world known so far to harbour life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future,…

— Carl Sagan

“It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of…

— Carl Sagan

“One consequence of this train of argument is that, even if civilizations commonly arise on planets throughout the Galaxy, few of them…

— Carl Sagan

Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human…

— Carl Sagan

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group Groups of people from…

— Carl Sagan

“The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future,…

— Carl Sagan

“Ann Druyan suggests an experiment: Look back again at the pale blue dot of the preceding chapter. Take a good long look…

— 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

“Consider again that pale blue dot...imagine that you take a good long look at it, imagine that you are starring at it…

— Carl Sagan

“That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being…

— Carl Sagan

“From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot.…

— 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

“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

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever…

— Carl Sagan

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will…

— Carl Sagan

In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

— Carl Sagan

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group.

— Carl Sagan