Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
CARL SAGANUnderstanding is a kind of ecstasy.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
-
-
Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
CARL SAGAN -
I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
CARL SAGAN -
What an astonishing thing a book is.
CARL SAGAN -
We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
CARL SAGAN -
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
CARL SAGAN -
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
CARL SAGAN -
Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
CARL SAGAN -
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
CARL SAGAN -
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 -
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 be tested by how well we support our libraries.
CARL SAGAN -
We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
CARL SAGAN -
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
CARL SAGAN -
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
CARL SAGAN -
Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
CARL SAGAN -
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
CARL SAGAN