My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence are provided… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival. Travel is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be? — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If intelligence is our only edge, we must learn to use it better, to shape it, to understand its limitations and deficiencies… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our… — 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
