"Look out for number one and try not to step in number two."
- Rodney Dangerfield
"My doctor’s a very strange man. I said to him, “Doc, what’s the difference between an oral thermometer and a rectal thermometer?” He told me, “The taste.”"
- Rodney Dangerfield
"I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it."
- Rodney Dangerfield
"A girl phoned me the other day and said, 'Come on over. There's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home."
- Rodney Dangerfield
"Birds know, better than humans, not to spoil the nest."
- Carl Sagan
"The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer."
- Carl Sagan
"The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee."
- Carl Sagan
"There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy."
- Carl Sagan
"For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness."
- Carl Sagan
"The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries."
- Carl Sagan
"Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars."
- Carl Sagan
"If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth."
- Carl Sagan
"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
- Carl Sagan
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere."
- Carl Sagan
"We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers."
- Carl Sagan
"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception."
- Carl Sagan
"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
"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."
- Carl Sagan
"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."
- Carl Sagan
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."