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Carl Sagan Quotes

Total quotes: 15
“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”
— Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Tagged: Perception, Human Being, galaxy, Cosmos, Life
“If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.”
— Carl Sagan, via Amazon
Tagged: Truth, Virtues
“The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.”
— Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain
Tagged: Brain, Knowledge, Intelligence, Understanding
“She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
— Carl Sagan, Contact
Tagged: Universe, Love, human
“The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything in space in the past – some as they were before the Earth came to be. Telescopes are time machines.”
— Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Tagged: Space, galaxy, Cosmos, stargazing, space and time
“Science is more than a body of knowledge. It’s a way of thinking.”
— Carl Sagan, Conversations with Carl Sagan
Tagged: Science, Thinking, Perspective
“We are one species. We are star stuff harvesting star light.”
— Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Tagged: humanity, Perception, Life, Celestial
“I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.”
— Carl Sagan, A quote by Carl Sagan
Tagged: Moving Forward, Optimism, Uncertainty
“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”
— Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Tagged: Metaphor, Worrying, Complaining, Taking actions
“There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.”
— Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Tagged: Atoms, Molecules, galaxy, Universe, DNA, Stars
“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
— Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
— Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Tagged: The Art of Awareness, Philosophy
“Many of us suspect that all of this—all the worlds, stars, galaxies and clusters in our observable universe—is but one tiny bubble in an infinite ocean of other universes; a multiverse. Universe upon universe; worlds without end.”
— Himself - Host, Cosmos, Season 1: Standing Up in the Milky Way
Tagged: Astronomy, galaxies, Stars, Universe
“Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.”
— Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Tagged: Books, Inspiring, Magic
“We make our purpose.”
— Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
Tagged: Living, Meaning, purpose
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