Carl Sagan Science Quotes
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If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate ... Choose science.
— Carl Sagan
I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.
— Carl Sagan
Science exacts a substantial entry fee in effort and tedium in exchange for its insights.
— Carl Sagan
Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood.
— Carl Sagan
Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.
— Carl Sagan
Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.
— Carl Sagan
Science is only a Latin word for knowledge
— Carl Sagan
Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.
— Carl Sagan
Would not a rational society spend more on understanding and preventing, than on preparing for, the next war?
— Carl Sagan
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
— Carl Sagan
We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be.
— Carl Sagan
[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science.
— Carl Sagan
All of us long for a competent, uncorrupt, charismtatic leader. We will leap at the opportunity to support, to believe, to feel good.
— Carl Sagan
Not all bits have equal value.
— 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
The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
— Carl Sagan
The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable.
— Carl Sagan
For ages men had used sticks to club and spear each other - Anaximander of Miletus used the stick to measure time.
— Carl Sagan
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
— Carl Sagan
It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.
— Carl Sagan
The same few dozen organic molecules are used over and over again in biology for the widest variety of functions.
— Carl Sagan
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
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
— Carl Sagan
The fact that so little of the findings of modern science is prefigured in Scripture to my mind casts further doubt on it divine inspiration.
— Carl Sagan
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
— Carl Sagan
But if we do not destroy ourselves, I believe that we will one day venture to the stars.
— Carl Sagan
Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
— Carl Sagan
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
— Carl Sagan
And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
— Ann Druyan
We are made of starstuff.
— Carl Sagan
Especially where the implications of what we think we are seeing seem to be profound, we may not exercise adequate self-discipline and self-criticism.
— Carl Sagan
Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
— Carl Sagan
I don't want to believe. I want to know.
— Carl Sagan
Hallucinations may be a neglected low door in the wall to a scientific understanding of the sacred.
— Carl Sagan
There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
— Carl Sagan
We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
— Carl Sagan
I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.
— Carl Sagan
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
— Carl Sagan
Liberation from superstition is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for science.
— Carl Sagan
If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off.
— Carl Sagan
Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten. The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood.
— Carl Sagan
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
— Carl Sagan
By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.
— Carl Sagan
The secrets of evolution, are time and death.
There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us. — Carl Sagan
There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us. — Carl Sagan
The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.
— Carl Sagan
All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.
— Carl Sagan
Interviewer: Didn't Sagan want to believe?
Druyan: he didn't want to believe. he wanted to know. — Ann Druyan
Druyan: he didn't want to believe. he wanted to know. — Ann Druyan
When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
— Carl Sagan
I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.
— Carl Sagan
If it takes a little myth and ritual to get us through a night that seems endless, who among us cannot sympathize and understand?
— Carl Sagan
Significant change might require those who are now high in the hierarchy to move downward many steps. This seems to them undesirable and is resisted.
— Carl Sagan
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
— Carl Sagan
Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
— Carl Sagan
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
— Carl Sagan
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
— Carl Sagan
We are all star stuff.
— Carl Sagan
We can't help it. Life looks for life.
— Carl Sagan