Carl Sagan

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#religion #science #faith

If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more? ↗

— Carl Sagan

#biology #philosophy #philosophy-of-life #religion #science

Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#relationships #love

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#cosmology #cosmos #existence #informed #knowledge

Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#debate #education #ignorance #informed #knowledge

When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#night-sky #science #stars #science

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#science #science

By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#big-bang #science #space #time #science

The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#dreams #future #hope #dreams

It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#life #reality #science #truth #courage