“You see, the religious people — most of them — really think this planet is an experiment. That's what their beliefs come… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“It's no surprise that appeals to a state of mind called faith can relieve symptoms caused, at least in part, by another,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and said, 'This is better than we thought! The universe… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“A new concept of god: “something not very different from the sum total of the physical laws of the universe; that is,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will… — 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
“Huygens was, of course, a citizen of his time. Who of us is not? He claimed science as his religion and then… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe. — 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
