Carl Sagan Quotes | Fat Tony's

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

- Carl Sagan

"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another."

- Carl Sagan

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

- 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

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

- Carl Sagan

"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."

- Carl Sagan

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

- Carl Sagan

"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."

- Carl Sagan

"We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers."

- 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

"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

"If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth."

- Carl Sagan

"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception."

- Carl Sagan

"The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas."

- Carl Sagan

"There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy."

- 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

"For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness."

- Carl Sagan

"The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer."

- Carl Sagan

"Birds know, better than humans, not to spoil the nest."

- Carl Sagan