Quote by Carl Sagan Download Open image ““If we go far enough back, any two people on Earth have a common ancestor.”” — Carl Sagan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“Perhaps there are twin versions of us all somewhere in another universe, living out the destinies of which we’ve been robbed.” — S.K. Falls Copy Share Image
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“...and while all people were bound together by the common space they shared, their journeys through time were all different, which meant that each… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“The truth is that from about 2 million years ago until around 10,000 years ago, the world was home, at one and the same… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, two people are made for each other. They may come from opposite ends of the earth. Their nations may be sworn to destroy… — Caitlin Brennan 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