We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
CARL SAGANExploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
-
-
Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
CARL SAGAN -
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 -
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
CARL SAGAN -
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
CARL SAGAN -
Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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 -
We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
CARL SAGAN -
The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
CARL SAGAN -
We are all stardust.
CARL SAGAN -
I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
CARL SAGAN -
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
CARL SAGAN -
The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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 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