Carl Sagan

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#monkey #science #truth #zoo #experience

And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof? ↗

— Carl Sagan

#intelligence

We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#science

You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see things as clearly as you do. We have to guard carefully against it. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#skepticism #science

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge ↗

— Carl Sagan

#knowledge #latin #learn #science #truth

If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#inspirational #truth #inspirational

The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#science

And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#science #science

Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#business

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library ↗

— Carl Sagan

#communal-memory #humanity #humanity-and-society #humans #libraries