One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
CARL SAGANOne of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
CARL SAGANBe grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
CARL SAGANThose at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
CARL SAGANPeople are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
CARL SAGANWe live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
CARL SAGANI consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
CARL SAGANKnowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
CARL SAGANAny faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
CARL SAGANIf we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
CARL SAGANWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
CARL SAGANOther things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
CARL SAGANThe notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
CARL SAGANIf it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
CARL SAGANA galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
CARL SAGANThe universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
CARL SAGANBetter the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
CARL SAGAN