1,131 Quotes by Carl Sagan

"Every cell is a triumph of natural selection, and we’re made of trillions of cells. Within us, is a little universe."

"Science is a way of thinking that helps you not to fool yourself."

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science"

"The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos."

"Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs — in time, in space, and in potential — the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors."

"All colours are arbitrary."

"The passion to explore is at the heart of being human."

"The impediment to scientific thinking is not, I think, the difficulty of the subject. Complex intellectual feats have been mainstays even of oppressed cultures. Shamans, magicians and theologians are highly skilled in their intricate and arcane arts. No, the impediment is political and hierarchical."

"If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate....Try science."

"We were wanderers from the beginning."