We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
CARL SAGANPerhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
-
-
I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
CARL SAGAN -
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
CARL SAGAN -
The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
CARL SAGAN -
Science 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 SAGAN -
Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
CARL SAGAN -
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
CARL SAGAN -
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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 -
The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
CARL SAGAN -
I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
CARL SAGAN -
Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
CARL SAGAN -
Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
CARL SAGAN -
Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
CARL SAGAN -
There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
CARL SAGAN -
Every star may be a sun to someone.
CARL SAGAN