“We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum star in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours. — 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
Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. — 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
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness… — 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
