The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it… — 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… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Probably a dozen times since their death I've heard my mother or father, in an ordinary conversational tone of voice, call my… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Religions contradict one another-on small matters, such as whether we should put on a hat or take one off on entering a… — 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
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And what if all of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“When I wake up I go through an abbreviated process of mourning all over again. Plainly, there’s something within me that’s ready… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. ... near… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence are provided… — 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
Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty… — 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, and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Christiaan Huygens became simultaneously adept in languages, drawing, law, science, engineering, mathematics and music. His interests and allegiances were broad. “The world… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
My long-time view about Christianity is that it represents an amalgam of two seemingly immiscible parts-the religion of Jesus and the religion… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The Greek religion explained that diffuse band of light in the night sky as the milk of Hera, squirted from her breast… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Christianity may be good and Satanism evil. Under the Constitution, however, both are neutral. This is an important, but difficult, concept for… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Science is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being. — 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
