Quotes by Carl Sagan

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.