1,131 Quotes by Carl Sagan

On Titan the molecules that have been raining down like manna from heaven for the last 4 billion years might still be there largely unaltered deep-frozen awaiting the chemists from Earth.

The world is so exquisite, with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better, it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look Death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.

There is a lurking fear that some things are not “meant" to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make.

The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.

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

There is a lurking fear that some things are not 'meant' to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make.