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If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate ... Choose science.
— Carl Sagan
Skepticism does not sell well.
— Carl Sagan
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers
— Carl Sagan
What an astonishing thing a book is.
— 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
There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.
— Carl Sagan
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
— Carl Sagan
You have to know the past to understand the present.
— Carl Sagan
Who will speak for Planet Earth?
— Carl Sagan
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[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science.
— Carl Sagan
Not all bits have equal value.
— Carl Sagan
Even victims of atrocious brutality and intractable pain may retain a longing, sometimes even a zest, for life.
— 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
I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.
— Carl Sagan
In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak?
— Carl Sagan
A book is proof humans can do magic.
— Carl Sagan
Football is a thinly disguised re-enactment of hunting; we played it before we were human.
— Carl Sagan
Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
— Carl Sagan
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If you want to make a [rhubarb] pie from scratch, first you have to create the universe.
— Carl Sagan
We can always take but never give.
— Carl Sagan
The Earth is a place. It is by no means the only place. It is not even a typical place.
— Carl Sagan
We are made of star-stuff. Our bodies are made of star-stuff. There are pieces of star within us all.
— Carl Sagan
This oak tree and me, we're made of the same stuff.
— Carl Sagan
Who is really in charge of this planet?
— Carl Sagan
All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.
— Carl Sagan
Voltaire argued that if God did not exist Man would be obliged to invent him, and was reviled for the remark.
— 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
Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe.
— Carl Sagan
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
— Carl Sagan
We make our purpose.
— Carl Sagan
But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine beings.
— Carl Sagan
It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.
— 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
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[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.
— Carl Sagan
Liberation from superstition is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for science.
— Carl Sagan
A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
— Carl Sagan
Our very existence in that distant time requires that we will have changed our institutions and ourselves.
— Carl Sagan
The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.
— 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
We are all stardust
— Carl Sagan
It is a characteristic conceit of our species to put human face on random cosmic violence.
— Carl Sagan
How can you tell when someone is only imagining?
— Carl Sagan
Everything not forbidden by the laws of nature, he assured her - quoting a colleague down the hall - is mandatory.
— Carl Sagan
The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.
— Carl Sagan
Valid criticism does you a favor.
— 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
