Best Carl Sagan Quotes
- Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose? Cartographers
- An atheist has to know more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no God. Agnosticism
- Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has… Ahead
- At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they… All
- A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of… Able
- For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A universe in which… Boring
- I believe that in every person is a kind of circuit which resonates to intellectual discovery-and the idea is to make that resonance work Believe
- Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?"… Apollo
- The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no in… Advance
- [N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a really good idea.… Any
- What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our… Advanced
- If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human rights'? How smart… Abstractions
- Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water.… Battlefields
- It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in… Awkward
- A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and… Argument
- Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C.… Additional
- Science is a way to not fool ourselves. Fool
- There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered… Among
- [Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing,… All
- We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species… Been
- The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from an… Any
- [S]cience has itself become a kind of religion. Atheism
- Because men, compared to male chimps, have such relatively small testicles (large testicles indicate a species where many males mate, one after the other, with… Chimps
- That we can now think of no mechanism for astrology is relevant but unconvincing. No mechanism was known, for example, for continental drift when it… Astrology
- As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it. ... But a… Adequate
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