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Carl Sagan Quotes

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Carl Sagan
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl Sagan
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
Carl Sagan
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Carl Sagan
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Carl Sagan
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Carl Sagan
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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?
Carl Sagan
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Carl Sagan

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. - Carl Sagan

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Inspirational, Known

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Science, Knowledge, Thinking

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Imagination, Carry

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

Exception, Extinction, Rule

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Science, Society, Technology

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Absence, Evidence

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Nature, Apple, Invent

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Good, Celibate, Clergy

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?

Science, Disservice, Reason

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Technology, Science, Crucial

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.

Learning, Chance, Death

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.

Technology, Bits, Books

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. - Carl Sagan

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Intelligence, Good, Brain

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

Benign, Hostile, Merely

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.

Bright, Classes, Night

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Universe, Delusion, Far

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.

Power, Science, Technology

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Delusion, Far, Grasp

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Awake, Basic, Citizenry

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Ambition, Harmony, Perfect

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Education, Science, Amazed

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

Earth, Finding, Forget

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.

Corner, Far, Forgotten

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.

Brothers, Clown, Columbus

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Religion, Science, Both

Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: November 9, 1934

Died: December 20, 1996

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