“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
“El reduccionismo no parece conceder un respeto suficiente a la complejidad del universo. A algunos se les antoja como un híbrido curioso… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I find many adults are put off when young children pose scientific questions. Why is the Moon round? the children ask. Why… — 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 business of scepticism is to be dangerous. Scepticism challenges established institutions. If we teach everybody, including, say, high school students, habits… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“the consequences of scientific illiteracy are far more dangerous in our time than in any that has come before. It’s perilous and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Another glorious feature of many modern science museums is a movie theater showing IMAX or OMNIMAX films. In some cases the screen… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The same few dozen organic molecules are used over and over again in biology for the widest variety of functions.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in… — 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
