I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
CARL SAGANI consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
CARL SAGANAll civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
CARL SAGANFor small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
CARL SAGANNature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
CARL SAGANYou are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
CARL SAGANThose at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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 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 SAGANIf you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
CARL SAGANOne 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 SAGANOne of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
CARL SAGANWe are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
CARL SAGANThe absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
CARL SAGANBe grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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 SAGANSomewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
CARL SAGAN