Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
CARL SAGANNot explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
CARL SAGANAnd you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
CARL SAGANDon’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
CARL SAGANBe grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
CARL SAGANThe universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
CARL SAGANAcross the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
CARL SAGANOur species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
CARL SAGANWe are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
CARL SAGANIf it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
CARL SAGANScience 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 SAGANThe absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
CARL SAGANExcept in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
CARL SAGANOne of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
CARL SAGANWe make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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 SAGANWhat an astonishing thing a book is.
CARL SAGAN