Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
CARL SAGANScience is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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 SAGANExcept in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
CARL SAGANPeople are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
CARL SAGANIf we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
CARL SAGANThe brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
CARL SAGANI’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
CARL SAGANWe are all stardust.
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 SAGANYour god is too small for my universe.
CARL SAGANIf we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
CARL SAGANNothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
CARL SAGANThere are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
CARL SAGANThe cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
CARL SAGANOur species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
CARL SAGANAcross the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
CARL SAGAN