Carl Sagan Quotes (64 Quotes)

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

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.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

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 . . .

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge.