Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
CARL SAGANWhere we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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 beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
CARL SAGANIf you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
CARL SAGANIf we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
CARL SAGANThere are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
CARL SAGANScience is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
CARL SAGANNature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
CARL SAGANWe are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
CARL SAGANThose at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
CARL SAGANYour god is too small for my universe.
CARL SAGANBe grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
CARL SAGANOne of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
CARL SAGANI would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
CARL SAGANScience is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
CARL SAGANWe can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
CARL SAGAN