Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
CARL SAGANBe grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
-
-
You have to know the past to understand the present.
CARL SAGAN -
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
CARL SAGAN -
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
CARL SAGAN -
The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
CARL SAGAN -
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
CARL SAGAN -
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
CARL SAGAN -
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
CARL SAGAN -
Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
CARL SAGAN -
I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
CARL SAGAN -
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
CARL SAGAN -
Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
CARL SAGAN -
Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
CARL SAGAN -
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
CARL SAGAN -
Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
CARL SAGAN -
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
CARL SAGAN