Carl Sagan Quotes

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

Love, Through, Small

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

Waiting, Known, Somewhere

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

Universe, Far, However

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

Imagination, Often, Carry

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.
Carl Sagan

Power, Science, Technology

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

Nature, Wish, Universe

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

Society, 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.
Carl Sagan

Universe, Far, However

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.
Carl Sagan

Live, Lost, Find

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.
Carl Sagan

Fact, Clown, Brothers

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

Intelligence, Good, Brain

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

Good, Idea, Toward

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

Science, Knowledge, Thinking

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

Human, Perfect, Universe

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

Minds, Needs, Works

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

Yourself, Forget, Person

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.
Carl Sagan

Learning, Life, History

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
Carl Sagan

Universe, Seems, Nor

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

Religion, Science, Deep

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

Education, Science, School

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

Science, Long, Reason

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.
Carl Sagan

Technology, Single, American

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.
Carl Sagan

Night, Find, Sun

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

Technology, Science, Depend

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: November 9, 1934

Died: December 20, 1996

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