Carl Sagan quotes are very famous and are very much admired. His real name is Carl Edward Sagan. He was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator.
His life span was from November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996. Carl Sagan’s quotes on Star Stuff, Cosmo and Science are very famous and sort of inspiration for all of us.
Carl Sagan Quotes
“To live in the hearts of others is to never die in those we leave behind.” — Carl Sagan
“The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.” — Carl Sagan
“The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.” — Carl Sagan
“There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.” — Carl Sagan
Famous Carl Sagan Quotes on Galaxies, Cosmos and Star Stuff.
“You can’t convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it’s based on a deep seated need to believe.” — Carl Sagan
“The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.” — Carl Sagan.
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“Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.” — Carl Sagan.
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“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. This God is emotionally unsatisfying… it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.” ― Carl Sagan
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.” — Carl Sagan.
“Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, and the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light.” — Carl Sagan
“It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” — Carl Sagan
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” — Carl Sagan
“Your god is too small for my universe.” — Carl Sagan.
“The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, it seems like an awful waste of space.” — Carl Sagan
“The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.” — Carl Sagan.
“We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.” — Carl Sagan
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“Billions of years from now our sun, then a distended red giant star, will have reduced Earth to a charred cinder. But the Voyager record will still be largely intact, in some other remote region of the Milky Way galaxy, preserving a murmur of an ancient civilization that once flourished — perhaps before moving on to greater deeds and other worlds — on the distant planet Earth.” ― Carl Sagan
“After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it’s burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being – and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth.” — Carl Sagan
“Every one of us is, from a cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.” — Carl Sagan
“There are in fact 100 billion galaxies, each of which contain something like a 100 billion stars. Think of how many stars, and planets, and kinds of life there may be in this vast and awesome universe.” — Carl Sagan
“Every star may be a sun to someone.” — Carl Sagan.
Star, Star Stuff and Galaxies
“Even through your hardest days, remember we are all made of stardust.” — Carl Sagan
“We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.” — Carl Sagan
“The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.” — Carl Sagan
“We are one species. We are starstuff.” — Carl Sagan.
“We are made of star-stuff. Our bodies are made of star-stuff. There are pieces of star within us all.” — Carl Sagan
“Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.” — Carl Sagan
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, and the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.” — Carl Sagan.
Famous Carl Sagan Quotes
“Science is only a Latin word for knowledge.” — Carl Sagan. *
“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” — Carl Sagan
“The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.” — Carl Sagan
“When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, that is the heart of science.” — Carl Sagan
“Science is more than a body of knowledge. It’s a way of thinking: a way of skeptically interrogating the universe.” — Carl Sagan.
“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” — Carl Sagan
“Not explaining science seems perverse to me. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.” — Carl Sagan.
Carl Sagan Quotes Cosmos
“You are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.” — Carl Sagan
“Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.” — Carl Sagan
“Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.” — Carl Sagan
“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.” — Carl Sagan.
“For small creatures such as us, vastness is bearable only through love.” — Carl Sagan
“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.” — Carl Sagan
“Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.” — Carl Sagan.
“Maxwell’s Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.” — Carl Sagan
“I don’t know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you’ll be the first to find out.” — Carl Sagan
“But our preferences do not determine what’s true.” — Carl Sagan
“We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.” — Carl Sagan
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” — Carl Sagan
“I don’t want to believe it. I want to know.” — Carl Sagan
“If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.” — Carl Sagan
“Extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof.” — Carl Sagan
“Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.” — Carl Sagan
“The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.” — Carl Sagan
“You have to know the past to understand the present.” — Carl Sagan.
“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.” — Carl Sagan
“In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.” — Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan Quotes about Life
“Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others? That’s who we are! We’re not who we say we are, we’re not who we want to be – we are the sum of the influence and impact that we have, in our lives, on others.” — Carl Sagan
“Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.” — Carl Sagan
“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.” — Carl Sagan
“A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet.” — Carl Sagan
“The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.” — Carl Sagan
“For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled, even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven’t forgotten: The open road still softly calls like a nearly forgotten song of childhood.” — Carl Sagan
“We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.” — Carl Sagan
“I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgments.” — Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan Love Quotes
“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
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” — Carl Sagan
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. – Carl Sagan.
You can’t convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it’s based on a deep seated need to believe – Carl Sagan
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. 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. – Carl Sagan
“Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.” — Carl Sagan
“You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you’re not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.” — Carl Sagan
Cosmos Quotes
“The beach reminds us of space. Fine sand grains, all more or less uniform in size, have been produced from the larger rocks through ages of jostling and rubbing, abrasion and erosion, again driven through waves and weather by distinct moon and sun. The beach also reminds us of time. The world is much older than human species.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little about it.” ― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.” — Carl Sagan
“All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.” — Carl Sagan
“Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.” — Carl Sagan
“We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.” — Carl Sagan.
“The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.” — Carl Sagan.