Way Quotes by Carl Sagan

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

— Carl Sagan

Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

— Carl Sagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

— Carl Sagan

Science is a way of thinking that helps you not to fool yourself.

— Carl Sagan

We are a way of the universe knowing itself.

— Carl Sagan

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

— Carl Sagan

On the day that we do discover that we are not alone, our society may begin to evolve and transform in some…

— Carl Sagan

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

— Carl Sagan

A still more glorious dawn awaits / not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise / a morning filled with 400 billion suns /…

— Carl Sagan

There are lots of ways to communicate what we know, but few ways to communicate what we feel. Music is one way…

— Carl Sagan

I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and…

— Carl Sagan

Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the…

— Carl Sagan

The desire to be connected with the cosmos reflects a profound reality, but we are connected; not in the trivial ways that…

— Carl Sagan

Religions contradict one another-on small matters, such as whether we should put on a hat or take one off on entering a…

— Carl Sagan

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way…

— Carl Sagan

Science is a collaborative enterprise, spanning the generations. When it permits us to see the far side of some new horizon, we…

— Carl Sagan

Looking at fires when high, by the way, especially through one of those prism kaleidoscopes which image their surroundings, is an extraordinarily…

— Carl Sagan

Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against…

— Carl Sagan

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from…

— Carl Sagan

Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future.…

— Carl Sagan

He sought a way to preserve the past. John Hershel was one of the founders of a new form of time travel……

— Carl Sagan

It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But…

— Carl Sagan

In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to…

— 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

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how…

— Carl Sagan

Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking. This is central to its success. Science…

— Carl Sagan

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.…

— Carl Sagan

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

— Carl Sagan

Every time you look up at the sky, every one of those points of light is a reminder that fusion power is…

— Carl Sagan

People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent…

— Carl Sagan

The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without…

— Carl Sagan

Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies…

— Carl Sagan

We are, in a way, temporary ambulatory repositories for our nucleic acids. This does not deny our humanity; it does not prevent…

— Carl Sagan

The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what we know.…

— Carl Sagan

If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You become a crotchety old person convinced that…

— Carl Sagan

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe…

— Carl Sagan

[N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a…

— Carl Sagan

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

— Carl Sagan

...the idea of a spiritual part of our nature that survives death, the notion of an afterlife, ought to be easy for…

— Carl Sagan

If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out…

— Carl Sagan