How lucky we are to live in this time / the first moment in human history / when we are in fact… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“We are all flawed and creatures of our times. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future?” — 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
“the future belongs to those societies that treat new ideas as delicate, fragile and immensely valuable pathways to the future.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations. — 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
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer (although not… — 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
Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly… — 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 Sphinx is missing a nose. Someone shot it off in a moment of idle desecration—some say it was Mameluke Turks, others,… — 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
Maybe it's a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds - promising untold opportunities - beckon.… — 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
“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
We are rare and precious because we are alive, because we can think as well as we can. We are privileged to… — 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
“Black holes may be apertures to elsewhen. Were we to plunge down a black hole, we would re-emerge, it is conjectured, in… — 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
The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Today, we're still loaded down - and, to some extent, embarrassed - by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of… — 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
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and… — 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 have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - [...] when awesome technological powers are in 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
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. — 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… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, we soared into the Solar System. For a few years. Then we hurried back. Why? What happened? What… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break… — 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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