The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it… — 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… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“For thousands of years humans were oppressed— as some of us still are— by the notion that the universe is a marionette… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Darwin’s transcendantly democratic insight that all humans are descended from the same non-human ancestors, that we are all members of one family,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and 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, and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“… where ignorance is bliss, ’Tis folly to be wise wrote the poet Thomas Gray.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“It is conventional wisdom now that anything built by the government will be a disaster. But the two "Voyager" spacecraft were built… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking. This is central to its success. Science… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Books, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accuracy; to tap the wisdom of our species; to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little about it.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves. Our very existence in that distant time… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The technological perils that science serves up, its implicit challenge to received wisdom, and its perceived difficulty, are all reasons for some… — 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
![“[ 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)
