Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
CARL SAGANImagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
CARL SAGANThe visions we offer our children shape the future.
CARL SAGANThe significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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 SAGANScience is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
CARL SAGANIf I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
CARL SAGANThe notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
CARL SAGANAnd you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
CARL SAGANI would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
CARL SAGANThere are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
CARL SAGANHuman beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
CARL SAGANEvery star may be a sun to someone.
CARL SAGANAdvances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
CARL SAGANFor small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
CARL SAGANNature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
CARL SAGANYour god is too small for my universe.
CARL SAGAN