Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this cosmos in which we float, like a mote of dust… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Time spent with children is time well spent. Their little minds are not constrained by 'reality' or focused upon goals. Anything and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The Apollo pictures of the whole Earth conveyed to multitudes something well known to astronomers: On the scale of the worlds -… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There are many instances in science, where those closest to the intricacies of the subject have a more highly developed sense of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Indeed the reasoned criticism of a prevailing belief is a service to the proponents of that belief; if they are incapable 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
We are rare and precious because we are alive, because we can think as well as we can. We are privileged to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The Romans called the Christians atheists. Why? Well, the Christians had a god of sorts, but it wasn't a real god. They… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There are many other (besides testosterone) behaviour-eliciting hormones fundamental for humen well-being, including estrogen and progesterone in females. The fact that complex… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Quickly capping 363 oil well fires in a war zone is impossible. The fires would burn out of control until they put… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches.… — 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 are provided… — 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
![“Quickly capping 363 oil well fires in a war zone is impossible. The fires would burn out of control until they put themselves out... The resulting soot might well stretch over all of South Asia... It could be carried around the world... [and] the consequences could be dire. Beneath such a pall…” quote by Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a7d/carl-sagan-160_around-the-world_quickly-capping-363-oil-well-fires-in-a_1517692.jpg)
![“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion, why do you not believe in materialistic science, which has an unparalleled record of fulfilled prophecy? Consider, for example, eclipses.” quote by Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/875/carl-sagan-160_belief_when-a-religious-couple-wrote-to-sagan-a_25095.jpg)
