black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Carl Sagan

There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
CARL SAGAN

Atom DNA Galaxy Molecule Science Stars Typical
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

Assemble Book Leaf Print Tree
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

desperatel Determination Preference Prejudice Puzzle True Truth Want Work
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
CARL SAGAN

Brain Feeling Goodness Joy Muscle Understand
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
CARL SAGAN

Creature Love Vast
Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
CARL SAGAN

Argument Authority Expert Future Mistake Past Weight
The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
CARL SAGAN

Exclusive Mutual Notion Science Spiritual
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
CARL SAGAN

Ambition Harmony Human Perfection Requirement Universe
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
CARL SAGAN

Dependent Exquisite Live Science Society Technology
Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
CARL SAGAN

Disturb Glory Stupidity
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
CARL SAGAN

Assure Delusion Grasp Persistence Satisfaction Universe
Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
CARL SAGAN

Explanation Love Peverse Science Want World
One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
CARL SAGAN

Adult Children Gift Reading Society Spring
Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
CARL SAGAN

Elegant Imagination Nature Stuble
The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
CARL SAGAN

Beach Earth Grain Number Planet Sand Science Stars Universe
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
CARL SAGAN

Business Carry Imagination Inspirational World

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Carl Sagan Quotes