The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Some racists still reject the plain testimony written in the DNA that all the races are not only human but nearly indistinguishable. . . . — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A still more glorious dawn awaits / not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise / a morning filled with 400 billion suns /… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores… — 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
Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled, even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In the middle 1970s an astronomer I admire put together a modest manifesto called "Objections to Astrology" and asked me to endorse… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A stars rich in europium; of distant galaxies analyzed through the collective light of a hundred billion constituent stars. Astronomical spectroscopy is… — 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
![“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion, why do you not believe in materialistic science, which has an unparalleled record of fulfilled prophecy? Consider, for example, eclipses.” quote by Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/875/carl-sagan-160_belief_when-a-religious-couple-wrote-to-sagan-a_25095.jpg)
