If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
More Quotes from Carl Sagan:
I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.Carl Sagan
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Carl Sagan
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl Sagan
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Carl Sagan
Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is . . .
Carl Sagan
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan
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