You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares. Carl Sagan More Quotes by Carl Sagan More Quotes From Carl Sagan When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion. Carl Sagan starsviewsnight I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true. Carl Sagan atheistsciencereligion There is every reason to think that in the coming years Mars and its mysteries will become increasingly familiar to the inhabitants of the Planet Earth. Carl Sagan marsyearsthinking Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet. Carl Sagan fateairrivers In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other. Carl Sagan contactemptinessfound The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths. Carl Sagan sacred My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it. An agnostic is somebody who doesn’t believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I’m agnostic. Carl Sagan agnosticviewsbelieve For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness. Carl Sagan fallibilityfailinggreatness A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet. Carl Sagan consciousnessearthwar A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger still. Carl Sagan infinitymindnumbers To read is to voyage through time. Carl Sagan rough-timesvoyagestime Recent research shows that many children without enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn (“cognitive impairment” ). Children don't have to be starving for this to happen. Even mild undernourishment — the kind most common among poor people in America — can do it. Carl Sagan windchildrenamerica We are made of starstuff. Carl Sagan starsmadescience We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos. Carl Sagan cosmosprofoundchildren The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps. Carl Sagan futuredreamchildren A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were thinking of millions and the Hindus billions. Carl Sagan biblicalyearsthinking The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster. Carl Sagan unbiasedmindway My parents were not scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily cohabiting modes of thought that are central to the scientific method. Carl Sagan parenttwoscience One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. Carl Sagan voicebookyears Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival. Carl Sagan passionlearningscience
