Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
CARL SAGANFor me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
-
-
Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
CARL SAGAN -
If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
CARL SAGAN -
The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
CARL SAGAN -
We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
CARL SAGAN -
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
CARL SAGAN -
One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
CARL SAGAN -
The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
CARL SAGAN -
If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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 -
What an astonishing thing a book is.
CARL SAGAN -
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
CARL SAGAN -
We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
CARL SAGAN -
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
CARL SAGAN -
We 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 SAGAN -
Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
CARL SAGAN