The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
CARL SAGANThe Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
CARL SAGANThe significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
CARL SAGANI don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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 SAGANExtraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
CARL SAGANDon’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
CARL SAGANA book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
CARL SAGANWe all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
CARL SAGANAvoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
CARL SAGANOther things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
CARL SAGANIf it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
CARL SAGANEvery kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
CARL SAGANOne of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
CARL SAGANThe universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
CARL SAGANWriting is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
CARL SAGANScience is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
CARL SAGAN