Carl Sagan Quotes, Reality Quotes, Light Quotes

Every time you look up at the sky, every one of those points of light is a reminder that fusion power is extractable from hydrogen and other light elements, and it is an everyday reality throughout the Milky Way Galaxy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Reality Quotes , Light Quotes

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Brave Quotes , Enough Quotes

Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Stars Quotes , Phoenix Quotes

The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything ins pace int he past, some as they were before the Earth came to be. Telescopes are time machines.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Stars Quotes , Distance Quotes

If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Loyalty Quotes , Community Quotes

Who will speak for Planet Earth?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Earth Quotes , Enthusiasm Quotes

Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Children Quotes , Hero Quotes

In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Time Quotes , Space Quotes

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Motivational Quotes , Learning Quotes

I think if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Who We Are Quotes

Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so that teamwork prevails: What one of us, even the most brilliant among us, misses, another of us, even someone much less celebrated and capable, may detect and rectify.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Teamwork Quotes , Mistake Quotes

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Understanding Quotes , World Quotes

How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Smart Quotes , Doe Quotes

I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It's up to you.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Stars Quotes , Technology Quotes

Football is a thinly disguised re-enactment of hunting; we played it before we were human.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Soccer Quotes , Football Quotes

We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Space Quotes

Otherwise we don't run the government the government runs us

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Running Quotes

When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different kinds; there's only one kind. It uses about fifty fundamental biological building blocks, organic molecules.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Block Quotes , Molecules Quotes

In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to ignore the fact that, deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the sceptics, are trying to figure out how the world works and what our role in it might be. Their motives are in many cases consonant with science. If their culture has not given them all the tools they need to pursue this great quest, let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Kindness Quotes , Fear Quotes

If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human rights'? How smart does a chimp have to be before killing him constitutes murder?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Smart Quotes , Animal Quotes