Carl Sagan Quotes about Pain

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We are, each of us, a multitude. Within us is a little universe.

We are, each of us, a multitude. Within us is a little universe.

Carl Sagan

Pain, Littles, Injury

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.

Carl Sagan

Pain, Regret, Compassion

"Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors". Book by Ann Druyan and Carl Sagan, 1992.

There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.

Carl Sagan

Pain, Wonder, Injury

Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.89, Ballantine Books

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

If we teach only the findings and products of science - no matter how useful and even inspiring they may be - without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from pseudoscience?

Carl Sagan

Pain, Average, Pseudoscience

Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.44, Ballantine Books