The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
CARL SAGANThe universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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 SAGANStars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
CARL SAGANAny faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
CARL SAGANScience is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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 SAGANOur species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
CARL SAGANThe only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
CARL SAGANThe Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
CARL SAGANYour god is too small for my universe.
CARL SAGANScience is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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 SAGANEvery star may be a sun to someone.
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 SAGANThe beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
CARL SAGAN