"n every culture, the sky and the religious impulse are intertwined. I lie back in an open field and the sky surrounds me. I’m overpowered by its scale...
Our God Is Alive and Well. Sorry About Yours.
More Carl Sagan quotes
"The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's meaning. W...
"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our pr...
"Or consider a story in the Jewish Talmud left out of the Book of Genesis. (It is in doubtful accord with the account of the apple, the Tree of Knowled...
"When I wake up I go through an abbreviated process of mourning all over again. Plainly, there’s something within me that’s ready to believe in life af...
"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light‐years ...
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
"Christianity may be good and Satanism evil. Under the Constitution, however, both are neutral. This is an important, but difficult, concept for many l...
"If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make m...
"A new concept of god: “something not very different from the sum total of the physical laws of the universe; that is, gravitation plus quantum mechani...
"As science advances, there seems to be less and less for God to do. It's a big universe, of course, so He, She, or It, could be profitably employed in...
"An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such comp...
"The world is so exquisite, with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's littl...
"You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility.
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.