If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
CARL SAGANIf we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
CARL SAGANThe cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
CARL SAGANWe are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
CARL SAGANOur species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
CARL SAGANPeople are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
CARL SAGANThe Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
CARL SAGANBooks are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
CARL SAGANYou are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
CARL SAGANWe can’t help it. Life looks for life.
CARL SAGANThe 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 SAGANThe notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
CARL SAGANDon’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
CARL SAGANTo live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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 SAGANIf you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
CARL SAGANNature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
CARL SAGAN