Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
-
-
One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
CARL SAGAN -
The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
CARL SAGAN -
Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
CARL SAGAN -
Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
CARL SAGAN -
We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
CARL SAGAN -
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
CARL SAGAN -
The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
CARL SAGAN -
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
CARL SAGAN -
And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
CARL SAGAN -
There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
CARL SAGAN -
There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
CARL SAGAN -
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
CARL SAGAN -
Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
CARL SAGAN -
Every 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 SAGAN -
The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
CARL SAGAN