Carl Sagan Famous Quotes
"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
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.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
"We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. 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."
They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
"I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true."
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
"Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves."
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
"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"
"Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense."
Carl Sagan Quotations
"If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it."
Brendan Francis
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
Phyllis Diller
"But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance."
William Shakespeare
"When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite."
William Blake
"In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed it must be achieved."
Franklin D Roosevelt
"Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment."
Andre Maurois
Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.
Eric Gibson
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Seneca
"The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
Carlos Fuentes