Carl Sagan

The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.

Carl Sagan

The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.

Carl Sagan

The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.

Carl Sagan

The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.

Carl Sagan

The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.

Carl Sagan

The total amount of energy from outside the solar system ever received by all the radio telescopes on the planet Earth is less than the energy of a single snowflake striking the ground.

Carl Sagan

The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves – without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.

Carl Sagan

Their position seems to be that their God is so great he doesn’t even have to exist.

Carl Sagan

There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.

Carl Sagan

There is a lurking fear that some things are not meant to be known.

Carl Sagan