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Universe Quotes by Carl Sagan

88 Universe quotes by Carl Sagan

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Carl Sagan’s voice still echoes across the stars, and these 88 reflections bring that echo to your screen. He balances hard‑won scientific insight with a childlike awe, turning the vastness of space into a familiar, thought‑provoking conversation.

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We are one species. We are starstuff.

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We are the universe experiencing itself.

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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

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We are a way of the universe knowing itself.

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We are, each of us, a multitude. Within us is a little universe.

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There is in this Universe much of what seems to be design.

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The universe forces those who live in it to understand it.

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Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of thinking: a way of skeptically interrogating the universe.

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All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions.

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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the…

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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and…

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Every cell is a triumph of natural selection, and we’re made of trillions of cells. Within us, is a little universe.

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If you want to make a [rhubarb] pie from scratch, first you have to create the universe.

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Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming…

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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

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There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across…

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“Meanwhile the Cosmos is rich beyond measure: the total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of…

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There are in fact 100 billion galaxies, each of which contain something like a 100 billion stars. Think of how many stars,…

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“Except for hydrogen, all the atoms that make each of us up—the iron in our blood, the calcium in our bones, the…

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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away…

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The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where…

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We are...capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth, to make an abundant and meaningful life for…

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She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness…

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“There is a place with four suns in the sky-red, white, blue, and yellow; two of them are so close together that…

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We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the…

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I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most…

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Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as…

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The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single year. If the universe began on January 1st it…

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In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If…

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What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human…

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(When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the…

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“There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the…

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“That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being…

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My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence are provided…

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“Consider again that pale blue dot...imagine that you take a good long look at it, imagine that you are starring at it…

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“We inhabit a universe where atoms are made in the centers of stars; where each second a thousand suns are born; where…

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“We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum star in…

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“The laws of nature cannot be randomly reshuffled at the cusps [of an oscillating universe]. If the universe has already gone through…

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“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”

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It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

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The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from…

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The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no…

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“Telepathy’ literally means to feel at a distance, just as ‘telephone’ is to hear at a distance and ‘television’ is to see at a…

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“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…

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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies,…

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In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams!

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“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion,…

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Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience.

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“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully…

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We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make…

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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…

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Any sufficiently crisp question can be answered by a single binary digit-0 or 1, yes or no.

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Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.…

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Every star may be a sun to someone.

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