20 quotes by Carl Sagan

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.” — Carl Sagan

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“We're made of star stuff.” — Carl Sagan

Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa1ImgOcOPM&t=6m18s

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“The cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be.” — Carl Sagan

Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa1ImgOcOPM&t=3m15s

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“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

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“There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.” — Carl Sagan

Source:The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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

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“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” — Carl Sagan

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“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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“The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.” — Carl Sagan

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“A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years.” — Carl Sagan

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“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

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

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“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” — Carl Sagan

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“If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?” — Carl Sagan

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“We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.” — Carl Sagan

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“All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.” — Carl Sagan

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“A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.” — Carl Sagan

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

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“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” — Carl Sagan

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“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” — Carl Sagan

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