Carl Sagan, The Varieties Of Scientific Experience: A Personal View Of The Search For God

Quotes

• “So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at l...”
• “It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it...”
• “If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that ma...”
• “I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.”
• “I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.”
• “Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”
• “Science is only a Latin word for knowledge”
• “We make our purpose.”