"How thoroughly the chimps and bonobos have erased the list of purported human distinctions!-self-awareness, language, ideas and their association, rea...
I don't want to believe. I want to know.
More Carl Sagan quotes
"The school systems, it seems to me have a attitude of discouragement of asking fundamental questions, if a 5 or 6 year old asks why the moon is round ...
"The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased...
"There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered among us...
"The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee.
"I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to...
"Might it be possible at some future time, when neurophysiology has advanced substantially, to reconstruct the memories or insight of someone long dead...
"The dangers that we face are part of the process, now well underway, of the unification of the planet--in language, culture, science, and commerce. Th...
"Our God Is Alive and Well. Sorry About Yours.
"The others would then fall silent and she would continue about doped gallium arsenide detectors, or the ethanol content of the galactic cloud W-3. The...
"Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid.
"We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to ma...
"The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And what if all of you are wrong? It's a possibility,...
"No question; language can free us of feeling, or almost. Maybe that's one of its functions - so we can understand the world without becoming entirely ...
"Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.