If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been? — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There are more potential combinations of DNA [physical forms] than there are atoms in the universe. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We live in an in-between universe where things change all right...but according to patterns, rules, or as we call them, laws of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way. We… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Where did God come from? If we decide this is an unanswerable question why not save a step and conclude that the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Is mankind alone in the universe? Or are there somewhere other intelligent beings looking up into their night sky from very different… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of… — 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… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I went to the librarian and asked for a book about stars… And the answer was stunning. It was that the Sun… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
You mustn't think of the Universe as a wilderness. It hasn't been that for billions of years," he said. "Think of it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning.… — 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
Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A general problem with much of Western theology in my view is that the god portrayed is too small. It is a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence is provided… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In a complex universe, in a society undergoing unprecedented change, how can we find the truth if we are not willing to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without… — 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
Any sufficiently crisp question can be answered by a single binary digit-0 or 1, yes or no. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
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