30 Carl Sagan Quotes for You to Enjoy

Carl Sagan

American Scientist

Born: Nov 9, 1934

Died: Dec 20, 1996

Science Space Stars Technology Universe World

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

Knowledge Science Thinking Way More Than Much Body

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

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

Good Intelligence Understanding Feel Like Joyous Brain Very Use Muscle

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before. Carl Sagan

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

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There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce. Carl Sagan

Darkness Light Black Pure Overwhelming Every Immortal Blackness Direction Blazing Almost Also Exists Itself Endless Infinity Sensation Where Fierce Depth Nowhere Wide Extension

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

Ambition Universe Harmony Perfect Human Required

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. Carl Sagan

Great Dark Light Lonely Universe Our Our Planet Some Cosmic Point Delusion Self-Importance Privileged Planet Challenged Pale Speck Imagined Position

We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution. Carl Sagan

Atoms Example Evolution Cosmic Cosmos Given Hydrogen Years Representatives Billion

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

Clown Laughed Some Brothers Wright Wright Brothers Fact Columbus Imply Also Geniuses Does Were The Wright Brothers Who

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

Religion Thoughts Science Both Nonsense Which Skeptical Scrutiny Means Deep

You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000! Carl Sagan

We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save. Carl Sagan

Trouble Bad Understand Very Trying Planet Save

We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being. Carl Sagan

World Invent Animals Other Hunger Ourselves Hatched Some Cosmic About Constructed Myths Powerful Know Make Course Make Up Understand How Mating Up Egg Fiat Being Stories After Which Created Based Imagine

We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have children, and develop a rich social, sexual, and intellectual life, but we know almost nothing about our surroundings. Carl Sagan

Life Animals Rich Nothing Community Our Hunt Out Sexual Some About Small Develop Almost Almost Nothing Know Years Years Ago Intellectual Intellectual Life Surroundings Children Plain Social Million Start Million Years

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

Life Death Me History Learning World Gave Others Out Would Would-Be About Delighted Learn How Permitted Were Continue Discover After Personally Turns Chance

The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite. Carl Sagan

Space Earth Favorite Arbitrary Purely Between Boundary Always Interested Planet

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