Science Quotes by Carl Sagan

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

— Carl Sagan

Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

— Carl Sagan

[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.

— Carl Sagan

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

— Carl Sagan

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

— Carl Sagan

We are made of starstuff.

— Carl Sagan

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

— Carl Sagan

“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking.”

— Carl Sagan

Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.

— Carl Sagan

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

— Carl Sagan

“We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be.”

— Carl Sagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

— Carl Sagan

One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

— Carl Sagan

Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

— Carl Sagan

Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather…

— Carl Sagan

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

— Carl Sagan

I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.

— Carl Sagan

“Demon” means “knowledge” in Greek. “Science” means “knowledge” in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further.”

— Carl Sagan

The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where…

— Carl Sagan

The fact that so little of the findings of modern science is prefigured in Scripture to my mind casts further doubt on…

— Carl Sagan

“The same few dozen organic molecules are used over and over again in biology for the widest variety of functions.”

— Carl Sagan

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed…

— Carl Sagan

The impediment to scientific thinking is not, I think, the difficulty of the subject. Complex intellectual feats have been mainstays even of…

— Carl Sagan

There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of…

— Carl Sagan

“We have designed our civilization based on science and technology and at the same time arranged things so that almost no one…

— Carl Sagan

“Another of Mack’s patients says that the aliens have been taking eggs from her since she was sexually mature, and that her…

— Carl Sagan

In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that…

— Carl Sagan

Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience…

— Carl Sagan

Societies will, of course, wish to exercise prudence in deciding which technologies that is, which applications of science are to be pursued…

— Carl Sagan

“The scientific world view works so well, explains so much and resonates so harmoniously with the most advanced parts of our brains…

— Carl Sagan

“Every now and then, I’m lucky enough to teach a kindergarten or first-grade class. Many of these children are natural-born scientists -…

— Carl Sagan

I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most…

— Carl Sagan

If we could travel into the past, it's mind-boggling what would be possible. For one thing, history would become an experimental science,…

— Carl Sagan

“The business of scepticism is to be dangerous. Scepticism challenges established institutions. If we teach everybody, including, say, high school students, habits…

— Carl Sagan

“All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion…

— Carl Sagan

As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it.…

— Carl Sagan

“We tend to hear much more about the splendors returned than the ships that brought them or the shipwrights. It has always…

— Carl Sagan

“There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the…

— Carl Sagan

“Those are some of the things that molecules do, given four billion years of evolution”

— Carl Sagan

“Science gropes and staggers toward improved understanding.”

— Carl Sagan