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“You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility.”

Carl Sagan

“If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?”

Carl Sagan book The Demon-Haunted World

Source: The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995), Ch. 1 : The Most Precious Thing, p. 12
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.”

Carl Sagan book Cosmos

Source: Cosmos

“Science is, at least in part, informed worship.”

Carl Sagan

Source: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)

“I've always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.”

Carl Sagan book Contact

Source: Contact

“Those at too great a distance may, I am well aware, mistake ignorance for perspective.”

Carl Sagan

Introduction (p. 7)
The Dragons of Eden (1977)
Source: Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

“We wish to find the truth, no matter where it lies. But to find the truth we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact.”

Carl Sagan

“We make our purpose.”

Carl Sagan

Source: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

“If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?”

Carl Sagan

Source: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

“We humans look rather different from a tree. Without a doubt we perceive the world differently than a tree does. But down deep, at the molecular heart of life, the trees and we are essentially identical.”

Carl Sagan book Cosmos

Source: Cosmos

“If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go”

Carl Sagan book Cosmos

Source: Cosmos

“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 book Cosmos

Source: Cosmos

“Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.”

Carl Sagan

“Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.”

Carl Sagan book Contact

Source: Contact

“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.”

Carl Sagan book Pale Blue Dot

Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.”

Carl Sagan book The Demon-Haunted World

&quot;With Science on Our Side&quot; https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1994/01/09/with-science-on-our-side/9e5d2141-9d53-4b4b-aa0f-7a6a0faff845/, Washington Post (January 9, 1994) <br class="br">Variant: Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you&#x27;re in love, you want to tell the world. <br class="br">Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark