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 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 SAGANWe make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
CARL SAGANIf we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
CARL SAGANAcross the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
CARL SAGANEvery 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 SAGANThe nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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 SAGANThe notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
CARL SAGANIf you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
CARL SAGANTo live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
CARL SAGANWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
CARL SAGANBetter the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
CARL SAGANNature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
CARL SAGANThe Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
CARL SAGANImagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
CARL SAGANI don’t want to believe. I want to know.
CARL SAGAN