It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But… — 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… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Demon mean knowledge in Greek, especially about the material world. Science means knowledge in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of… — 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
At a few hundred kilometers altitude, the Earth fills half your sky, and the band of blue that stretches from Mindanao to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on… — 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
Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is clear that the nations of the world now can only rise and fall together. It is not a question of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In more than one respect, the exploring of the Solar System and homesteading other worlds constitutes the beginning, much more than the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We humans look rather different from a tree. Without a doubt we perceive the world differently than a tree does. But down… — 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
