Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“We are alive and we resonate with idea of life elsewhere, but only careful accumulation and assessment of the evidence can tell… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The difference between physics and metaphysics is not that the practitioners of one are smarter than the practitioners of the other. The… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and… — 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
“the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is “a peculiar evil.” If the opinion is right, we are… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Or perhaps they are here, but in hiding because of some Lex Galactica , some ethic of noninterference with emerging civilizations. We… — 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
'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“[Thales] was reproached for his poverty, which was supposed to show that philosophy is of no use. According to the story, he… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“In the 1920s, there was a dinner at which the physicist Robert W. Wood was asked to respond to a toast ...… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 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
![“Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C. by the Ionian philosopher Heraclitus as 'night walkers, magicians, priests of Bacchus, priestesses of the wine-vat…” quote by Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3e2/carl-sagan-160_bacchus_science-and-mathematics-are-much-more-co_2332206.jpg)
![“[Thales] was reproached for his poverty, which was supposed to show that philosophy is of no use. According to the story, he knew by his skill [in interpreting the heavens] while it was yet winter that there would be a great harvest of olives in the coming year; so, having a little money, he gave…” quote by Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/812/carl-sagan-160_harvest-time_thales-was-reproached-for-his-poverty-wh_1947574.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)
