Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
CARL SAGANEvery star may be a sun to someone.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
-
-
Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
CARL SAGAN -
All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
CARL SAGAN -
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
CARL SAGAN -
If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
CARL SAGAN -
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
CARL SAGAN -
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 SAGAN -
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
CARL SAGAN -
What an astonishing thing a book is.
CARL SAGAN -
Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
CARL SAGAN -
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 -
Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
CARL SAGAN -
Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
CARL SAGAN -
Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
CARL SAGAN -
Your god is too small for my universe.
CARL SAGAN -
The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
CARL SAGAN