Carl Sagan Quotes, Responsibility Quotes, Home Quotes

If you look at Earth from space you see a dot, that's here. That's home. That's us. It underscores the responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Responsibility Quotes , Home Quotes

If you want to make a [rhubarb] pie from scratch, first you have to create the universe.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Pie Quotes , Scratches Quotes

The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Optimistic Quotes , Space Quotes

The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Cosmos Quotes , Machinery Quotes

In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Change Quotes , Science Quotes

UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Interesting Quotes , Cases Quotes

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Atheist Quotes , Believe Quotes

We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Discovery Quotes , Innovation Quotes

.. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the 'Momentary' masters of a 'Fraction' of a 'Dot'

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Blood Quotes

We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Dust Quotes , Sunbeams Quotes

Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical energy within them is a kind of stored sunlight originally accumulated by ancient plants. Our civilization runs by burning the remains of humble creatures who inhabited the Earth hundreds of millions of years before the first humans came on the scene. Like some ghastly cannibal cult, we subsist on the dead bodies of our ancestors and distant relatives. - Dr. Carl Sagan

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Running Quotes , Humble Quotes

We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Children Quotes , Profound Quotes

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Lonely Quotes , Dark Quotes

There are huge advertising budgets only when there's no difference between the products. If the products really were different, people would buy the one that's better. Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Stupid Quotes , Differences Quotes

Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Goal Quotes , Custodians Quotes

History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let it happen again.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Truth Quotes , Ignorance Quotes

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Smart Quotes , Knowing Quotes

Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Self Quotes , Perfect Quotes

What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Believe Quotes , Two Quotes

Time spent with children is time well spent. Their little minds are not constrained by 'reality' or focused upon goals. Anything and everything is possible. Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Children Quotes , Reality Quotes