To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
CARL SAGANTo live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
CARL SAGANA book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
CARL SAGANNot all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
CARL SAGANThere are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
CARL SAGANBooks permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
CARL SAGANScience is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
CARL SAGANThe brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
CARL SAGANThe significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
CARL SAGANBooks are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
CARL SAGANWe live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
CARL SAGANThe beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
CARL SAGANAdvances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
CARL SAGANThe very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
CARL SAGANThe total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
CARL SAGANA galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
CARL SAGANThe notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
CARL SAGAN