Best Carl Sagan Quotations
- I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can… All
- Otherwise we don't run the government the government runs us Government
- It's perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution, toxic and radioactive wastes, acid… Acid
- One trend that bothers me is the glorification of stupidity, that the media is reassuring people it's alright not to know anything. That to me… Alright
- Some 5 billion years from now, there will be a last perfect day on Earth... then the sun will begin to die, life will be… Begin
- Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes. Ashes
- The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths. Funny
- History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to… All
- There are many hypotheses in physics of almost comparable brillance and elegance that have been rejected because they did not survive such a confrontation with… Been
- You mean am I for it or against it? You think this is a key question I'm going to be asked on Vega, and you… Answer
- The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths / of exquisite interrelationships / of the awesome machinery of nature Awesome
- How lucky we are to live in this time / the first moment in human history / when we are in fact visiting other worlds Fact
- A still more glorious dawn awaits / not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise / a morning filled with 400 billion suns / the rising of… Awaits
- Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is… Ask
- I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space. Ashamed
- Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension… Among
- We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet, are up for… All
- The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to… All
- All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions. All
- 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… Affect
- These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught… Acceptance
- If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in… Able
- There is every reason to think that in the coming years Mars and its mysteries will become increasingly familiar to the inhabitants of the Planet… Become Increasingly
- These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victims of their very success, the… Area
- When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different… All
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