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People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success. — Francoise Sagan

If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate ... Choose science. — Carl Sagan

But down deep, at the molecular heart of life we're essentially identical to trees. — Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan's 'Pale Blue Dot' is where I got the title 'Momentary Masters.' — Albert Hammond Jr.

Your idea of love is rather primitive. It's not a series of sensations, independent of each other ... It's something different ... a sense of loss ... — Francoise Sagan

Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good. — Carl Sagan

We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers — Carl Sagan

Nature does not always conform to our predispositions and preferences, to what we deem comfortable and easy to understand. — Carl Sagan

A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying. — Francoise Sagan

Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary. — Francoise Sagan

It's sometimes easier to reject strong evidence than to admit that we've been wrong, this is information about ourselves worth having. — Carl Sagan

You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility. — Carl Sagan

What an astonishing thing a book is. — Carl Sagan

Removing a pebble is sometimes enough to change a destiny. — Samuel Sagan

It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness. — Carl Sagan

Contemplated as one grand whole, astronomy is the most beautiful monument of the human mind; the noblest record of its intelligence. — Carl Sagan

According to some estimates, almost half the scientists and high technologists on Earth are employed full- or part-time on military matters. — Carl Sagan

Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience. — Carl Sagan

There is a certain kind of stupidity reserved for women's dealings with men. — Francoise Sagan

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself. — Carl Sagan

Anger at queries about our beliefs is the body's warning signal: here lies unexamined and probably dangerous doctrinal baggage. — Carl Sagan

There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. — Carl Sagan

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. — Carl Sagan

You have to know the past to understand the present. — Carl Sagan

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world. — Carl Sagan

Who will speak for Planet Earth? — Carl Sagan

The most brilliant youngsters are a national and a global resource. — Carl Sagan

[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science. — Carl Sagan

Dear Friend, Just a line to show that I am alive & kicking and going grand. It's a treat. — Carl Sagan

I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be nice for me to be in love with him, too. — Francoise Sagan

How can you tell when someone is only imagining? — Carl Sagan

Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten. The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood. — Carl Sagan

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species. — Carl Sagan

It is a characteristic conceit of our species to put human face on random cosmic violence. — Carl Sagan

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. — Carl Sagan

The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space. — Carl Sagan

Sagan is an astronomer with one eye on the stars, another on history, and a third - his mind's - on the human condition. ... — Carl Sagan

We are all stardust — Carl Sagan

In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature . They can't help it. — Carl Sagan

Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas. — Carl Sagan

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. — Carl Sagan

People's feelings are as strong as they always were, and skepticism is probably as unfashionable today as in any other age. Accordingly, — Carl Sagan

What you call types of mind are only mental ages. — Francoise Sagan

Thus, 99 percent of the Earth's atmosphere is of biological origin. The sky is made by life. — Carl Sagan

When man, Apollo man, rockets into space, it isn't in order to find his brother, I'm quite sure of that. It's to confirm that he hasn't any brothers. — Francoise Sagan

You 'mustn't' nothing in your life. I don't 'must' nothing in the life, just die. It's important, yeah, but I have also a future in front of me. — Peter Sagan

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe — Carl Sagan

The secrets of evolution, are time and death.
There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us. — Carl Sagan

She'd like to be indispensable; that's what every woman wants ... — Francoise Sagan

If you treat life well, life is usually good to you. And I love life. There's a long-standing affair between us. — Francoise Sagan

It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking. — Francoise Sagan

We fear the monster's capacity for evil because we recognize it in human hearts. — Nick Sagan

Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves. — Francoise Sagan

What's the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses. — Carl Sagan

[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true. — Carl Sagan

Is it really true that we can't afford one attack helicopter's worth of seed corn to listen to the stars? — Carl Sagan

Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents. — Carl Sagan

Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance. — Francoise Sagan

Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life. — Francoise Sagan

A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone. — Carl Sagan

The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. — Carl Sagan

I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder. — Carl Sagan

Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing. — Carl Sagan

My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough? — Francoise Sagan

Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter. — Francoise Sagan

[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion. — Carl Sagan

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. — Carl Sagan

If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth. — Carl Sagan

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature. — Carl Sagan

It is a known fact that every man's heart is set on having a daughter. — Francoise Sagan

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. — Carl Sagan

If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic. — Ann Druyan

The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true. — Carl Sagan

Our very existence in that distant time requires that we will have changed our institutions and ourselves. — Carl Sagan

If people knew how many people, especially the very rich and powerful ones, went to psychics, their jaws would drop through the floor, — Carl Sagan

Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone. — Carl Sagan

And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude. — Carl Sagan

We always want someone we've treated badly to be gay. It's less upsetting. — Francoise Sagan

his conscience washed clean by happiness. — Francoise Sagan

Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is ... — Carl Sagan

Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible. — Francoise Sagan

Everything not forbidden by the laws of nature, he assured her - quoting a colleague down the hall - is mandatory. — Carl Sagan

The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth. — Carl Sagan

The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance. — Carl Sagan

I believe that in every person is a kind of circuit which resonates to intellectual discovery-and the idea is to make that resonance work — Carl Sagan

If we go far enough back, any two people on Earth have a common ancestor. — Carl Sagan

Valid criticism does you a favor. — Carl Sagan

If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off. — Carl Sagan

Football is a thinly disguised re-enactment of hunting; we played it before we were human. — Carl Sagan

To live in the hearts of others is to never die in those we leave behind. — Carl Sagan

The fifth regular solid must then, they thought, correspond to some fifth element that could only be the substance of the heavenly bodies. — Carl Sagan

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

Predictions of surprising events always prove more accurate if not set down on paper beforehand. — Carl Sagan

Liberation from superstition is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for science. — Carl Sagan

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. — Carl Sagan

Cynicism always enchanted me by producing a delicious feeling of self-assurance and of being in league with myself — Francoise Sagan

We make our purpose. — Carl Sagan

Each time it happens we're tempted to infer the direct intervention of a Maker. — Carl Sagan

But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine beings. — Carl Sagan

It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men. — Carl Sagan