Carl Sagan Quotes - Page 24

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• We can make a similar examination, but with greater uncertainty, of the extraterrestrial hypothesis that holds that a wide range of UFOs viewed on the planet Earth are space vehicles from planets of other stars.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Space, Earth

  Carl Sagan (1973). “Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective”, p.200, Cambridge University Press

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• I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.

  Carl Sagan

  Civilization, Space, Trying

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• How lucky we are to live in this time / the first moment in human history / when we are in fact visiting other worlds

  Carl Sagan

  Other Worlds, Lucky, Firsts

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• The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before.

  Carl Sagan

  Appreciation, Art, Appreciated

  "Mr. X". Essay by Carl Sagan, hermiene.net. 1969.

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• [One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true.

  Carl Sagan

  Inability, Hypothesis, Prove

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• Centuries hence, when current social and political problems may seem as remote as the problems of the Thirty Years' War are to us, our age may be remembered chiefly for one fact: It was the time when the inhabitants of the earth first made contact with the vast cosmos in which their small planet is embedded.

  Carl Sagan

  War, Years, Space

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• We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands. The loom of time and space works the most astonishing transformations of matter.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Taken, Destiny

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• Discussing the possibilities of extraterrestrial life: I would love it even if they were short, sullen, grumpy and sexually obsessed. But there just isn't any good evidence.

  Carl Sagan

  Life, Sullen, Grumpy

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• The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.

  Carl Sagan

  Running, Dream, Self Esteem

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.464, Ballantine Books

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• The desire to be connected with the cosmos reflects a profound reality, but we are connected; not in the trivial ways that astrology promises, but in the deepest ways.

  Carl Sagan

  Reality, Astrology, Profound

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• We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Journey, Long

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, 1980.

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• Clutching our crystals and religiously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in steep decline, unable to distinguish between what's true and what feels good, we slide, almost without noticing, into superstition and darkness.

  Carl Sagan

  Feel Good, Darkness, Superstitions

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• In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Discovery, May

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• We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

  Carl Sagan

  Taken, Hands, Firsts

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.47, Ballantine Books

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• Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.

  Carl Sagan

  Loyalty, Spring, Survival

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, 1980.

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• If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.

  Carl Sagan

  Suffering, Ifs, Presses

  Carl Sagan (1997). “Contact”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Who will speak for Planet Earth?

  Carl Sagan

  Earth, Enthusiasm, Speak

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