Vastness Quotes by Carl Sagan

We are one species. We are starstuff.

— Carl Sagan

It means nothing to be open to a proposition we don't understand.

— Carl Sagan

It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.

— Carl Sagan

Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

— Carl Sagan

In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.

— Carl Sagan

The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.

— Carl Sagan

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

— Carl Sagan

Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television.

— Carl Sagan

There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

— Carl Sagan

In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with…

— Carl Sagan

Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

— Carl Sagan

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

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

— Carl Sagan

What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but…

— Carl Sagan

“In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with…

— Carl Sagan

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no…

— Carl Sagan

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held…

— Carl Sagan

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point…

— Carl Sagan

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

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

— Carl Sagan

What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in…

— Carl Sagan

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

— Carl Sagan