If 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 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 SAGANThe universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
CARL SAGANSomewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
CARL SAGANI would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
CARL SAGANAcross the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
CARL SAGANWhere we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
CARL SAGANThose at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
CARL SAGANExtinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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 SAGANNature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
CARL SAGANYou have to know the past to understand the present.
CARL SAGANThe total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
CARL SAGANExtraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
CARL SAGANI’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
CARL SAGANThe significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
CARL SAGANAll civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
CARL SAGAN