Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
CARL SAGANWe are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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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.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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