Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Carl Sagan quotes, Carl Sagan sayings, and Carl Sagan proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
The Milky Way Galaxy is one of billions, perhaps hundreds of billions of galaxies notable neither in mass nor in brightness nor in how its stars are configured and arrayed. Some modern deep sky photographs show more galaxies beyond the Milky Way than stars within the Milky Way. Every one of them is an island universe containing perhaps a hundred billion suns. Such an image is a profound sermon on humility.Carl Sagan
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The first two letters of the name Pluto are the initials of Percival Lowell. Its symbol Is , a planetary monogram. But Lowell's llfelong love was the planet Mars. He was electrified by the announcement in 1877 by an Italian astronomer, Giovanni Schiaparelli, of canali on Mars.Carl Sagan
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There is nothing inhuman about an intelligent machine; it is indeed an expression of those superb intellectual capabilities that only human beings, of all the creatures on our planet, now possessCarl Sagan
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With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong.Carl Sagan
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The trapdoor beneath our feet swings open. We find ourselves in bottomless free fall. We are lost in a great darkness, and there's no one to send out a search party. Given so harsh a reality, of course we're tempted to shut our eyes and pretend that we're safe and snug at home, that the fall is only a bad dream. Carl Sagan
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. Carl Sagan
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Cleverly designed experiments are the key.Carl Sagan
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In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.Carl Sagan
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The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship, so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.Carl Sagan
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Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust or less than dust in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.Carl Sagan
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.Carl Sagan
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.Carl Sagan
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The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything ins pace int he past, some as they were before the Earth came to be. Telescopes are time machines.Carl Sagan
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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
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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.Carl Sagan
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We are all flawed and creatures of our times. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future?Carl Sagan
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By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.Carl Sagan
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.Carl Sagan
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It is tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.Carl Sagan
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The chemistry of coal is still not fully understood, despite a long standing economic incentiveCarl Sagan
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On Titan the molecules that have been raining down like manna from heaven for the last 4 billion years might still be there largely unaltered deep-frozen awaiting the chemists from Earth.Carl Sagan
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There is a lurking fear that some things are not “meant" to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make.Carl Sagan
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The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.Carl Sagan
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We are the custodians of life's meaning. Carl Sagan
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If you wish to make an apple pie from the scratch, you must first invent the universeCarl Sagan
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.Carl Sagan
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.Carl Sagan
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.Carl Sagan
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.Carl Sagan
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.Carl Sagan