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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

Love, Inspirational, Perspective

Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.371, Ballantine Books

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

God, Spiritual, Philosophy

Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.54, Ballantine Books

The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don’t like that statement, but few can argue with it.

Jesus, Children, Names

Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.209, Ballantine Books

Your god is too small for my universe.

Universe

The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it

Anxiety, Pay, Anticipation

Carl Sagan (2012). “Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence”, p.74, Ballantine Books

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.

Responsibility, Home, Blue

Source: www.cbsnews.com

Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others? That’s who we are! We’re not who we say we are, we’re not who we want to be - we are the sum of the influence and impact that we have, in our lives, on others.

Motivational, Impact, Want

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

Science, Ideas, Argument

Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.429, Ballantine Books

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

Children, Profound, Cosmos

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.

Smart, Knowing, Judgement

Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

Self, Deception, Vastness

Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.158, Ballantine Books

It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in power; we are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible, and which are not.

Smart, Knowledge, Responsibility

The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.

Beach, Stars, Numbers

Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.221, Ballantine Books

After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being - and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth.

Stars, Years, Other Worlds

Carl Sagan (1994). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, Random House Incorporated

We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.

Cosmos, Stills, Wanderers

Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.217, Ballantine Books

If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out the way he wants? Why's he constantly repairing and complaining? No, there's one thing the Bible makes clear: The biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer. He's not good at design, he's not good at execution. He'd be out of business, if there was any competition.

Biblical, Design, Competition

Carl Sagan (2016). “Contact”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion is right, we are robbed of the "opportunity of exchanging error for truth"; and if it's wrong, we are deprived of a deeper understanding of the truth in its "collision with error." If we know only our own side of the argument, we hardly know even that: it becomes stale, soon learned by rote, untested, a pallid and lifeless truth.'

Truth, Book, Opportunity

Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.550, Ballantine Books

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.

Science, Technology, Information Society

"Bringing Science Back to Earth". Interview with Anne Kalosh, Hemispheres (the magazine of United Airlines), October 1994.

Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness of all things. It conveys awe for the intricate and subtle way in which the universe is put together.

Order, Opposites, Greek

Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.37, Ballantine Books

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

Understanding, Curiosity, Kind

Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.17, Ballantine Books

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?

Inspirational, Life, Truth

Carl Sagan, Tom Head (2006). “Conversations with Carl Sagan”, p.145, Univ. Press of Mississippi

In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.

Moon, Extraterrestrial, Star Gazing

Carl Sagan, Jerald F. TerHorst, Allan J. Mayer, Sharon S. McKern, Laurence J. Peter (1980). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”

The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.

Weed, Marijuana, Dangerous World

"Mr. X". Essay by Carl Sagan, hermiene.net. 1969.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Wisdom, Understanding, Brain

The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.

Numbers, Logical, Simplest

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