Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those […]
Author : Carl Sagan
When enough fiction is written and enough scientific hypotheses are proposed, sooner or later there will be accidental concordances. – Carl Sagan
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant? – Carl Sagan
The Apollo pictures of the whole Earth conveyed to multitudes something well known to astronomers: On the scale of the worlds – to say nothing of stars or galaxies – humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal – Carl Sagan
The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.) – Carl Sagan
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. – Carl Sagan
All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion is unrequited. Surveys suggest that some 95 percent of Americans are scientifically illiterate. – Carl Sagan
We are set irrevocably, I believe, on a path what will take us to the stars – unless in some monstrous capitulation to stupidity and greed, we destroy ourselves first. – Carl Sagan
The cosmos was discovered only yesterday. For a million years it was clear to everyone that there were no other places than the earth.Then in the last tenth of a percent of the lifetime of our species, in the instant between Aristarchus and ourselves, we reluctantly noticed that we were not the centre and purpose […]
Lost somewhere between the eternity of time and immensity of space is our tiny planetary home – Carl Sagan