Quotes from Carl Sagan
Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.
- Carl Sagan
Who are we? 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
But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
- Carl Sagan
There is never only ONE of anything in nature.
- Carl Sagan
A general problem with much of Western theology in my view is that the god portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy much less of a universe.
- Carl Sagan
Your god is too small for my universe.
- Carl Sagan
An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.
- Carl Sagan
Our God Is Alive and Well. Sorry About Yours.
- Carl Sagan
I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
- Carl Sagan
We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.
- Carl Sagan
Football is a thinly disguised re-enactment of hunting; we played it before we were human.
- Carl Sagan
Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.
- Carl Sagan