Carl Sagan Quotes
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
Carl Sagan
It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
We are in a way for the cosmos to know itself.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
You have to know the past to understand the present.
Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
We are star-stuff.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think its forever.
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
The Earth is a place. It is by no means the only place. It is not even a typical place.
But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
We grow up in isolation. Only slowly do we teach ourselves the Cosmos.
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
Sceptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
You can’t convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it’s based on a deep seated need to believe.
In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist’s signature.
We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used.
