1,131 Quotes by Carl Sagan

في مكان ما، يوجد شيء مذهل ما في انتظار أن يُكتشف.

العلم ليس فقط متوافقًا مع الروحانية، إنه كذلك من أعمق منابعها.

لا يكمُن جمال الكائنات الحية في كونها مبنية من ذرات، وإنما في الطريقة التي وُضعت بها تلك الذرات معًا.

إذا فهمت العمليات الأسية، فإن مفتاح كثير من أسرار الكون ستكون بين يديك

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical energy within them is a kind of stored sunlight originally accumulated by ancient plants. Our civilization runs by burning the remains of humble creatures who inhabited the Earth hundreds of millions of years before the first humans came on the scene. Like some ghastly cannibal cult, we subsist on the dead bodies of our ancestors and distant relatives.

I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgements.

[Censoring] knowledge, telling people what they must think and what ideas are impermissible, which lines of evidence may not be pursued, is the aperture to thought police, foolish and incompetent decision-making, and long-term decline.

Si la calidad de la educación que uno tiene a su alcance es inadecuada, si a uno le enseñan a memorizar al pie de la letra y no a pensar, si el contenido de lo que se nos da para leer viene de una cultura casi ajena, la alfabetización puede ser un camino lleno de obstáculos.