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If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate ... Choose science.
— 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
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
What an astonishing thing a book is.
— Carl Sagan
Removing a pebble is sometimes enough to change a destiny.
— Samuel Sagan
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
— 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
Who will speak for Planet Earth?
— Carl Sagan
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[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
It is a characteristic conceit of our species to put human face on random cosmic violence.
— Carl Sagan
The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
— Carl Sagan
We are all stardust
— 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
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
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
Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.
— Francoise Sagan
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[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
I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.
— 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
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[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.
— Carl Sagan
It is a known fact that every man's heart is set on having a daughter.
— Francoise Sagan
Our very existence in that distant time requires that we will have changed our institutions and ourselves.
— Carl Sagan
his conscience washed clean by happiness.
— Francoise 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
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
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
