Carl Sagan Quotes about Atheism

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He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.

He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.

Carl Sagan

Believe, Thinking, Atheism

The evidence, so far at least and laws of Nature aside, does not require a Designer. Maybe there is one hiding, maddeningly unwilling to be revealed.

Carl Sagan

Law, Atheism, Doe

Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.76, Ballantine Books

In the middle 1970s an astronomer I admire put together a modest manifesto called "Objections to Astrology" and asked me to endorse it. I struggled with his wording, and in the end found myself unable to sign, not because I thought astrology has any validity whatever, but because I felt (and still feel) that the tone of the statement was authoritarian.

Carl Sagan

Astrology, Atheism, Together

Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.388, Ballantine Books

For years I've been stressing with regard to UFOs that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Carl Sagan

Stress, Years, Atheism

Carl Sagan (2011). “Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium”, p.46, Ballantine Books

[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.

Carl Sagan

Religion, Atheism, Kind

But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. What shall we make of this: an edifice abandoned early in construction by the architect?

Carl Sagan

Details Of Life, Atheism, Poor Planning

Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.76, Ballantine Books