You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
CARL SAGANYou are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
CARL SAGANThe nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
CARL SAGANThe beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
CARL SAGANThe universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
CARL SAGANWe make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
CARL SAGANAdvances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
CARL SAGANNature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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 SAGANTo live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
CARL SAGANEvery one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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 live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
CARL SAGANUnderstanding is a kind of ecstasy.
CARL SAGANScience is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
CARL SAGANI’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
CARL SAGANFor me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
CARL SAGAN