Carl Sagan Quotes - Page 17

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• I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.

  Carl Sagan

  Zoos, Thinking, People

  Carl Sagan (2006). “The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God”, p.55, Penguin

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• 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 prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.

  Carl Sagan

  God, Science, Religion

  "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space". Book by Carl Sagan, 1994.

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• Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose?

  Carl Sagan

  Children, Hero, Long

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• We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

  Carl Sagan

  Understanding, World, Daily Life

  "A Brief History of Time". Book by Stephen Hawking, Introduction, 1988.

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• The fact that so little of the findings of modern science is prefigured in Scripture to my mind casts further doubt on it divine inspiration.

  Carl Sagan

  Inspiration, Doubt, Mind

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.61, Ballantine Books

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• The open road still softly calls.

  Carl Sagan

  Stills, Sedentary, Open Road

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.15, Ballantine Books

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• After I give lectures-on almost any subject-I am often asked, "Do you believe in UFOs?" I'm always struck by how the question is phrased, the suggestion that this is a matter of belief and not evidence. I'm almost never asked, "How good is the evidence that UFOs are alien spaceships?"

  Carl Sagan

  Believe, Giving, Suggestions

  Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.82, Ballantine Books

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• We are all made up of star stuff.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Stuff, Made

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• A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Dust, May

  Cosmos ch. 1 (1980). Sagan denied using the phrase "billions and billions," as caricatured by comedian Johnny Carson, but the above quote approaches that phrase, and Sagan was extremely fond in his writing of the word billion or billions.

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• When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, that is the heart of science.

  Carl Sagan

  Integrity, Heart, Science

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Documentary (1990 Update). Episode 3: "The Harmony of the Worlds", 1990.

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• Is mankind alone in the universe? Or are there somewhere other intelligent beings looking up into their night sky from very different worlds and asking the same kind of question?

  Carl Sagan

  Intelligent, Night, Sky

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• We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.

  Carl Sagan

  Taken, Hands, Firsts

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.47, Ballantine Books

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• The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from an investigation of the governing physics.

  Carl Sagan

  War, Winter, Science

  "A Path Where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 26, 1990.

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• We are all star stuff.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Stuff, All Stars

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• They (i. e., the Pythagoreans) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.

  Carl Sagan

  Errors, Views, Rigidity

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 184, 1980.

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• Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

  Carl Sagan

  Lying, Flower, Book

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.306, Ballantine Books

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• I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Thinking, People

  Carl Sagan, Tom Head (2006). “Conversations with Carl Sagan”, p.55, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.

  Carl Sagan

  Teacher, Book, Mind

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• By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.

  Carl Sagan

  Space, Bangs, Horizon

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.287, Ballantine Books

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• You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.

  Carl Sagan

  Dollars, Chemicals

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• Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water. Together they make a placid and unpoisonous material, table salt. Why each of these substances has the properties it does is a subject called chemistry.

  Carl Sagan

  War, Science, Water

  Carl Sagan (1979). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”, Random House Inc

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• A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our survival. It is our birthright. When, through indifference, inattention, incompetence, or fear of skepticism, we discourage children from science, we are disenfranchisin g them, taking from them the tools needed to manage their future.

  Carl Sagan

  Children, Mean, Survival

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• It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.

  Carl Sagan

  Emotional, Courageous, Exploration

  Carl Sagan (2006). “The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God”, p.197, Penguin

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• We are the custodians of life's meaning.

  Carl Sagan

  Custodians

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.76, Ballantine Books

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• If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone?

  Carl Sagan

  Tonight, Sun, Realizing

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