BEST CARL SAGAN QUOTES

“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

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

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”

“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it, we go nowhere.”

“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.”

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

“Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.”

“The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we.” SAD GRIEVING QUOTES

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies, were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”

“The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.”

“If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.”

“The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by ‘God,’ one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God.”

“In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”

“The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond, no doubt by accident, to those of modern scientific cosmology.”

“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?”

“We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”

“The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counter-intuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.”