Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Quotes

• “One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across th...”
• “The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the...”
• “The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see the front as i...”
• “We are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to self-awareness. We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pon...”
• “The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingli...”
• “The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compare...”
• “What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-w...”
• “The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great De...”
• “If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the c...”
• “There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’...”
• “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billi...”
• “By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back towa...”
• “When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.”
• “The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.”
• “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
• “And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.”
• “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”