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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Carl Sagan

Inspirational, Nature, Hipster

Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.242, Ballantine Books

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

Carl Sagan

Inspirational, Life, Religious

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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.

Carl Sagan

Love, Inspirational, Perspective

Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.371, 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?

Carl Sagan

Inspirational, Life, Truth

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

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

Carl Sagan

Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

"President Obama Quotes Carl Sagan at Rutgers: 'Embrace What is True Rather Than What Feels Good'" by Hemant Mehta, www.patheos.com. May 15, 2016.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Carl Sagan

Love, Inspirational, Life

Carl Sagan (1997). “Contact”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic.

Carl Sagan

Inspirational, Funny, Reading

Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.305, Ballantine Books

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

Carl Sagan

Inspirational, Educational, Knowledge

If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?

Carl Sagan

Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.

Carl Sagan

Inspirational, Pain, Animal