“Once we lose our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe which dwarfs… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“We inhabit a universe where atoms are made in the centers of stars; where each second a thousand suns are born; where… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Leave nothing to chance. Overlook nothing. Combine contradictory observations. Allow yourself enough time.” — 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
“Huygens was, of course, a citizen of his time. Who of us is not? He claimed science as his religion and then… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“the consequences of scientific illiteracy are far more dangerous in our time than in any that has come before. It’s perilous and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Some women, it seemed, were entirely without guile and bestowed their affections with hardly a moment's conscious thought. Others set out to… — 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
