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When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
Written by Carl Sagan
I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
Written by Carl Sagan
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
Written by Carl Sagan
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Written by Carl Sagan
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
Written by Carl Sagan
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Written by Carl Sagan
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Written by Carl Sagan
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Written by Carl Sagan
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
Written by Carl Sagan
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Written by Carl Sagan
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Written by Carl Sagan
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Written by Carl Sagan
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Written by Carl Sagan
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Written by Carl Sagan
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Written by Carl Sagan
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
Written by Carl Sagan
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Written by Carl Sagan
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Written by Carl Sagan
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
Written by Carl Sagan
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Written by Carl Sagan
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Written by Carl Sagan
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Written by Carl Sagan
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Written by Carl Sagan
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Written by Carl Sagan
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
Written by Carl Sagan
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
Written by Carl Sagan
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.
Written by Carl Sagan
In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.
Written by Carl Sagan
It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.
Written by Carl Sagan
The professed function of the nuclear weapons on each side is to prevent the other side from using their nuclear weapons. If that's all it is, then we've gotta as: how many nuclear weapons do you need to do that?
Written by Carl Sagan

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