Religion Quote by Carl Sagan

“Christiaan Huygens became simultaneously adept in languages, drawing, law, science, engineering, mathematics and music. His interests and allegiances were broad. “The world is my…

— Carl Sagan

“A wise man of Old Earth had once claimed that science would destroy mankind, not through its weapons of mass destruction, but through finally…

— Graham McNeill

When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their…

— George Bernard Shaw

The Huygens images were everything our images from orbit were not. Instead of hazy, sinuous features that we could only guess were streams and…

— Carolyn Porco

I esteem his understanding and subtlety highly, but I consider that they have been put to ill use in the greater part of his…

— Christiaan Huygens

Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.

— Nikola Tesla

There's no doubt that the search for planets is motivated by the search for life. Humans are interested in whether or not life evolves…

— Debra Fischer

“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion,…

— Carl Sagan

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

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

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

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends…

— Jay Leno

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

— Erich Fromm

“Galton’s gospel of eugenics found fertile soil in Britain, in the intellectual salons of Europe, and in the United States. Beginning in the early…

— Joseph Loconte

“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.”

— Deanna L. Lawlis