Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
CARL SAGANBooks permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
CARL SAGANScience is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
CARL SAGANOther things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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 SAGANWe live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
CARL SAGANNature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
CARL SAGANEvery one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
CARL SAGANWe are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
CARL SAGANEvery star may be a sun to someone.
CARL SAGANHuman beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
CARL SAGANWe are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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 SAGANSomewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
CARL SAGANBe grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
CARL SAGANWe 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 SAGANThe beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
CARL SAGAN