Carl Sagan Stardust Quotes

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. ~ Carl Sagan

We are all stardust ~ 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

Even through your hardest days, remember we are all made of stardust. ~ Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan said we are all made of stardust.

She was made of book dust. ~ Michael Guillebeau

Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs. ~ Carl Sagan

Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective. ~ Carl Sagan

We ourselves are made of Stardust. ~ Carl Sagam

If it takes a little myth and ritual to get us through a night that seems endless, who among us cannot sympathize and understand? ~ Carl Sagan

Paid product endorsements, especially by real or purported experts, constitute a steady rainfall of deception. They betray contempt for the intelligence of their customers. They introduce an insidious corruption of popular attitudes about scientific objectivity. ~ Carl Sagan

How can you tell when someone is only imagining? ~ Carl Sagan

They will manage to cross the ocean of becoming. ~ Carl Sagan

Intellectual capacity is no guarantee against being dead wrong. ~ Carl Sagan

Some thrive for time, while most quickly vanish. ~ Carl Sagan

Who is really in charge of this planet? ~ Carl Sagan

A book is proof humans can do magic. ~ Carl Sagan

Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing. ~ Carl Sagan

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. ~ Carl Sagan

In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. ~ Carl Sagan

A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic. ~ Carl Sagan

What thin partitions sense from thought divide! ~ Carl Sagan

Books are proof humans can do magic ~ Carl Sagan

If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go ~ Carl Sagan

Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable ~ Carl Sagan

Thomas Jefferson taught that a democracy was impractical unless the people were educated. ~ Carl Sagan

Sagan is an astronomer with one eye on the stars, another on history, and a third - his mind's - on the human condition. ... ~ Carl Sagan

Birds know, better than humans, not to spoil the nest. ~ Carl Sagan

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. ~ Carl Sagan

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. ~ Carl Sagan

If we go far enough back, any two people on Earth have a common ancestor. ~ Carl Sagan

Each time it happens we're tempted to infer the direct intervention of a Maker. ~ Carl Sagan

When asked how he accomplished his astonishing discoveries, Newton replied unhelpfully, By thinking upon them. ~ Carl Sagan

The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both. ~ Carl Sagan

Skepticism does not sell well. ~ Carl Sagan

But I could be wrong. ~ 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

Are we willing to tolerate ignorance and complacency in matters that affect the entire human family? ~ Carl Sagan

If ever there was an avian candidate for psychotherapy, the male blue heron is our nominee. ~ Carl Sagan

Otto Warburg had, half a century before, proposed that oxidation was the cause of many cancers. ~ Carl Sagan

In any case, we do not advance the human cause by refusing to consider ideas that make us frightened. ~ Carl Sagan

Anger at queries about our beliefs is the body's warning signal: here lies unexamined and probably dangerous doctrinal baggage. ~ Carl Sagan

Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation. ~ Carl Sagan

One of the great commandments of science is, Mistrust arguments from authority. ~ Carl Sagan

The book of Nature had waited more than a millennium for a reader. ~ Carl Sagan

It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness. ~ Carl Sagan

Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze. ~ Carl Sagan

Black holes collect problems faster than they collect matter. ~ Carl Sagan

The most brilliant youngsters are a national and a global resource. ~ Carl Sagan

Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood. ~ Carl Sagan

Science exacts a substantial entry fee in effort and tedium in exchange for its insights. ~ Carl Sagan

I've always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions. ~ Carl Sagan

You humans have a certain talent for adaptability--at least in the short term. ~ Carl Sagan

We can't help it. Life looks for life. ~ Carl Sagan

Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex. ~ Carl Sagan

Of course we all would like to foretell the future and make contact with the gods. ~ Carl Sagan

The ancient Ionians were the first we know of to argue systematically that laws and forces of Nature, rather than gods, are responsible for the order and even the existence of the world. ~ Carl Sagan

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. ~ Carl Sagan

What's the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses. ~ Carl Sagan

And because what we are doing is so horrifying, we tend not to think of it much. ~ Carl Sagan

Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself. ~ Carl Sagan

Your god is too small for my universe. ~ Carl Sagan

Lost somewhere between the eternity of time and immensity of space is our tiny planetary home ~ Carl Sagan

Dear Friend, Just a line to show that I am alive & kicking and going grand. It's a treat. ~ Carl Sagan

In every culture we imagined something like our own political system running the Universe Few found the similarity suspicious. ~ Carl Sagan

If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles. ~ Carl Sagan

Cleverly designed experiments are the key. ~ Carl Sagan

She found what she had been searching for. ~ Carl Sagan

Intuitive: The word conveys, I think, a diffuse annoyance at our inability to understand how we come by such knowledge. ~ Carl Sagan

Everything not forbidden by the laws of nature, he assured her - quoting a colleague down the hall - is mandatory. ~ Carl Sagan

But you reassure yourself that at least here they are safe from baleen whales and oil slicks and cocktail sauce. ~ Carl Sagan

The many sorrows of our recent history suggest that we humans have a learning disability. ~ Carl Sagan

We were wanderers from the beginning. ~ Carl Sagan

It was difficult to hold Broca's brain without wondering whether in some sense Broca was still in there - his wit, his skeptical mien, his abrupt gesticulations when he talked, his quiet and sentimental moments. ~ Carl Sagan

According to some estimates, almost half the scientists and high technologists on Earth are employed full- or part-time on military matters. ~ Carl Sagan

Nearly everyone in ancient Egypt exhorted the gods to let the Pharaoh live 'forever. These collective prayers failed. Their failure constitutes data. ~ Carl Sagan

Is it really true that we can't afford one attack helicopter's worth of seed corn to listen to the stars? ~ Carl Sagan

An oak tree and I are made of the same stuff. If you go far enough back, we have a common ancestor. The ~ Carl Sagan

Pseudoscience speaks to powerful emotional needs that science often leaves unfulfilled. It caters to fantasies about personal powers we lack and long for. ~ Carl Sagan

We are, each of us, a multitude. Within us is a little universe. ~ Carl Sagan

In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work. ~ Carl Sagan

Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. ~ Carl Sagan

There are some hundred billion (1011) galaxies, each with, on the average, a hundred billion stars. ~ Carl Sagan

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. ~ Carl Sagan

We grow up in isolation. Only slowly do we teach ourselves the Cosmos. ~ Carl Sagan

The price we pay for the anticipation of our future is anxiety about it. ~ Carl Sagan

Our very existence in that distant time requires that we will have changed our institutions and ourselves. ~ Carl Sagan

When too much cynicism threatens to engulf us, it is buoying to remember how pervasive goodness is ~ Carl Sagan

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves. ~ Carl Sagan

But down deep, at the molecular heart of life we're essentially identical to trees. ~ Carl Sagan

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science. ~ Carl Sagan

Hallucinations may be a neglected low door in the wall to a scientific understanding of the sacred. ~ Carl Sagan

Even victims of atrocious brutality and intractable pain may retain a longing, sometimes even a zest, for life. ~ Carl Sagan

Could we possible manage the next phase of human history without first dealing with this penchant for dehumanizing the adversary? ~ Carl Sagan

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. ~ Carl Sagan

To live in the hearts of others is to never die in those we leave behind. ~ Carl Sagan

Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe. ~ Carl Sagan

Observation: there was absolutely nothing to see on Venus. Conclusion: it must be covered with life. ~ Carl Sagan

Would not a rational society spend more on understanding and preventing, than on preparing for, the next war? ~ Carl Sagan

First rule in government spending: Why build one, when you can have two at twice the price? ~ Carl Sagan

[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion. ~ Carl Sagan