For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
CARL SAGANFor small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
CARL SAGANWe can’t help it. Life looks for life.
CARL SAGANAll civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
CARL SAGANWe are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
CARL SAGANThe universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
CARL SAGANBooks permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
CARL SAGANThe universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
CARL SAGANBe grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
CARL SAGANIf you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
CARL SAGANScience is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
CARL SAGANWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
CARL SAGANBetter the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
CARL SAGANI’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
CARL SAGANWe all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
CARL SAGANFor me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
CARL SAGANIf we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
CARL SAGAN