58 result(s) for Carl Sagan Quotes.
"We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers."
"We are a way for the universe to know itself."
"There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question."
"We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands."
"The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we are."
"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it, we go nowhere."
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"We are star stuff harvesting sunlight."
"Understanding is a kind of ecstasy."
"The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use, we feel very good. Understanding is joy."
"The cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be."
"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true."
"Imagination will see the invisible, feel the intangible, and achieve the impossible."
"We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out, and we have only just begun."
"Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still."
"The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use, we feel very good. Understanding is joyous."
"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."
"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious."
"The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent."
"Absent evidence is not evidence of absence."
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
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"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."
"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."
"You have to know the past to understand the present."
"In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it's my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie."
"Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense."
"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true. We have a method, and that method helps us to reach not absolute truth, only asymptotic approaches to the truth—never there, just closer and closer, always finding vast new oceans of undiscovered possibilities."
"We are made of star stuff."
"The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition."
"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception."
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
"The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars."
"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
"We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers."
"What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles."
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"The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together."
"The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths, of exquisite interrelationships, of the awesome machinery of nature."
"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out."
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff."
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere."
"The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff."
"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."
"For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love."
"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."
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
"The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence."
"We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever."
"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
"The beauty of living things is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together."
"The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space."
"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
"In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie."
"The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage."
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