We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
CARL SAGANWe make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
CARL SAGANPerhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
CARL SAGANWe are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
CARL SAGANA book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
CARL SAGANExtraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
CARL SAGANWe are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
CARL SAGANFor small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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 SAGANBe grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
CARL SAGANWe are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
CARL SAGANWriting is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
CARL SAGANBooks permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
CARL SAGANOther things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
CARL SAGANWe live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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 SAGANEvery star may be a sun to someone.
CARL SAGAN