Carl Sagan Quotes - Page 2

Quotes about:

• Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence

  Carl Sagan

  Demand, Claims, Evidence

  16 Copy quote

• We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make up the Milky Way Galaxy which is one of billions of other galaxies which make up a universe which may be one of a very large number, perhaps an infinite number, of other universes. That is a perspective on human life and our culture that is well worth pondering.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Rocks, Circles

  59 Copy quote

• Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience.

  Carl Sagan

  Judging

  38 Copy quote

• I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgments.

  Carl Sagan

  Leader, Independence, Promise

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.546, Ballantine Books

  23 Copy quote

• We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam

  Carl Sagan

  Dust, Sunbeams, Suspended

  74 Copy quote

• If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.

  Carl Sagan

  Country, Children, Teaching

  "The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark". Book by Carl Sagan, ch. 25: "Real Patriots Ask Questions", 1995.

  81 Copy quote

• The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don’t like that statement, but few can argue with it.

  Carl Sagan

  Jesus, Children, Names

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.209, Ballantine Books

  49 Copy quote

• There are in fact 100 billion galaxies, each of which contain something like a 100 billion stars. Think of how many stars, and planets, and kinds of life there may be in this vast and awesome universe.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Thinking, May

  47 Copy quote

• If you look at Earth from space you see a dot, that's here. That's home. That's us. It underscores the responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

  Carl Sagan

  Responsibility, Home, Blue

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

  72 Copy quote

• Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish. It makes sense to revere the Sun and the stars, for we are their children.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Children, Sun

  72 Copy quote

• Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Ocean, Long

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 193, 1980.

  16 Copy quote

• Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.

  Carl Sagan

  Smart, Knowing, Judgement

  17 Copy quote

• Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

  Carl Sagan

  Nature, Mass Extinction, Exception To The Rule

  Carl Sagan (2006). “The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God”, p.76, Penguin

  31 Copy quote

• Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.

  Carl Sagan

  Fate, Rivers, Air

  18 Copy quote

• Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Phoenix, Ashes

  17 Copy quote

• The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.

  Carl Sagan

  Beach, Stars, Numbers

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.221, Ballantine Books

  14 Copy quote

• If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go

  Carl Sagan

  Earth, Ruins, Ifs

  11 Copy quote

• [Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything. It has two rules. First: there are no sacred truths; all assumptions must be critically examined; arguments from authority are worthless. Second: whatever is inconsistent with the facts must be discarded or revised. ... The obvious is sometimes false; the unexpected is sometimes true.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Self, Two

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.362, Ballantine Books

  12 Copy quote

• Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

  Carl Sagan

  God, Spiritual, Philosophy

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.54, Ballantine Books

  87 Copy quote

• The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Ideas, Argument

  Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.429, Ballantine Books

  60 Copy quote

• My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it. An agnostic is somebody who doesn’t believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I’m agnostic.

  Carl Sagan

  Believe, Views, Agnostic

  11 Copy quote

• we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers

  Carl Sagan

  Patience, Our World, Depth

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.217, Ballantine Books

  57 Copy quote
• 

  Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.

  Carl Sagan

  Comforting, Fantasy, Hard

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.263, Ballantine Books

  66 Copy quote

• We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

  Carl Sagan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

  "President Obama Quotes Carl Sagan at Rutgers: 'Embrace What is True Rather Than What Feels Good'" by Hemant Mehta, www.patheos.com. May 15, 2016.

  20 Copy quote

• We are, each of us, a multitude. Within us is a little universe.

  Carl Sagan

  Pain, Littles, Injury

  15 Copy quote

Page 2 of 24

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin