In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of… — 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… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Probably a dozen times since their death I've heard my mother or father, in an ordinary conversational tone of voice, call my… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations, as in ancient Greece in the time… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“In exact parallel to regressing people so they supposedly retrieve forgotten memories of ‘past lives’, Frankel notes that therapists can as readily… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose? — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Consider again that pale blue dot...imagine that you take a good long look at it, imagine that you are starring at it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Would you say, “Billy, be home by the time the Earth has rotated enough so as to occult the Sun below the… — 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
Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Except for hydrogen, all the atoms that make each of us up—the iron in our blood, the calcium in our bones, the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Part of the resistance to Darwin and Wallace derives from our difficulty in imagining the passage of the millennia, much less the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“We live in an extraordinary age. These are times of stunning changes in social organization, economic well-being, moral and ethical precepts, philosophical… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“I do not think it irresponsible to portray even the direst futures if we are to avoid them we must understand that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“In general, human societies are not innovative. They are hierarchical and ritualistic. Suggestions for change are greeted with suspicion: they imply an… — 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
