Carl-sagan Quotes

My main reason for scepticism about the Huxley/Sagan theory is that the human brain is demonstrably ...

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most ef...

Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a t...

If it takes a little myth and ritual to get us through a night that seems endless, who among us cann...

Billions of years from now our sun, then a distended red giant star, will have reduced Earth to a ch...

The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies t...

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself

We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.

Can you be sure that others have not come before you and destroyed the pristine state of the native ...

The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us ...

Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.

Every now and then, I'm lucky enough to teach a kindergarten or first-grade class. Many of these chi...

I don't think science is hard to teach because humans aren't ready for it, or because it arose only ...

Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will...

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem ye...