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Carl Sagan Quotes

American - Scientist | November 9, 1934 - December 20, 1996

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Knowledge Science Thinking Body Way

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Live Technology Science Society

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Imagination Go Will Never Without

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Good Intelligence Brain Understanding

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

Live Space People Universe Find

There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.

Light Darkness Direction Fierce Pure

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

Universe Seems Indifferent Nor

We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.

Evolution Years Atoms Example Cosmos

No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.

Home World Perception Powerful Solar

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

Nature Universe Wish You Apple Pie

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

Love Small Through Only Creatures

We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

World Egg Powerful Know Understand

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