Author: Carl Sagan

Quotes

No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.

No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.

- Carl Sagan

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

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

- Carl Sagan

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

- Carl Sagan

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

- Carl Sagan

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

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

- Carl Sagan

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

- Carl Sagan

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

- Carl Sagan

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

- Carl Sagan

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.

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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