Carl Sagan Quotes

“the history of science . . . teaches that the most we can hope for is successive improvement in our understanding, learning from our mistakes, an asymptotic approach to the Universe, but with the proviso that absolute certainty will always elude us.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

topic:knowledge science

“the cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

topic:freedom speech

“It is said that men may not be the dreams of the gods, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

topic:God men dreams

“if your God wanted to convince us, he could have done a much better job.”

― Carl Sagan, Contact

topic:God belief

“We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

topic:fear stars

“Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave.”

― Carl Sagan, Contact

topic:fear religion

“We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements . . . profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

topic:understanding science

“The power which a man's imagination has over his body to heal it or make it sick is a force which none of us is born without.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

topic:power imagination body

“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. ”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

topic:wisdom books

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

topic:reality universe

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