I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Why do we put up with it? Do we like to be criticized? No, no scientist enjoys it. Every scientist feels a… — 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
[N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Humans may crave absolute certainty; they may aspire to it; they may pretend, as partisans of certain religions do, to have attained… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
While our behavior is still significantly controlled by our genetic inheritance, we have, through our brains, a much richer opportunity to blaze… — 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
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Science is a collaborative enterprise, spanning the generations. When it permits us to see the far side of some new horizon, we… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of thinking: a way of skeptically interrogating the universe. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“In its encounter with Nature, science invariably elicits a sense of reverence and awe. The very act of understanding is a celebration… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Societies will, of course, wish to exercise prudence in deciding which technologies that is, which applications of science are to be pursued… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Ann Druyan suggests an experiment: Look back again at the pale blue dot of the preceding chapter. Take a good long look… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain… — 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
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