Author of quotes: Carl Sagan

Every child is a born scientist. We extinguish this spark in children: their enthusiasm and curiosity, which guide science.

We are the way for the cosmos to know itself.

How is it that none of the major religions are not looked at science and said, "Wow! And everything is better than we thought! The universe is much more than he ever told us through the prophets. A more extensive, sophisticated, elegant"? Instead they say, "no, no, No. My God is small, and I want it so".

Recently, accompanied by the Director I walked through the big laboratory, investigating primates. Along the long corridor as far as the eye stood a cage with chimpanzees. They sat there one or two or three - that their content is typical for such institutions (or for ordinary zoos). As soon as we approached the nearest cage, its two inhabitants bared teeth and with surprising accuracy let us a stream of saliva at once promociju easy costume Director. Then they said stacatto short expletives reverberate across the corridor, and immediately picked up and strengthened the voices of other prisoners chimpanzees, which, of course, have not seen us, until the corridor literally filled with screams and a thud to shake the grates. The Director told me that in such a situation we can fly not only spitting, and at his insistence, we left.
In my memory clearly surfaced footage of American movies of the thirties and forties, shot in the vast and inhuman forced-labour prisons, in which inmates pounded their plates on the bars of the gratings at the sight of the tyrant overseer. Those of a chimpanzee, which was discussed, healthy, and well fed. If they are "only" animals, if the animals, which abstract not, then my comparison is nothing more than sentimental foolishness. But chimpanzees can abstract. Like all other mammals, they are capable of deep feelings. They, no doubt, had not committed any crime. So why all the civilized world, in virtually every major city, are apes in prison? I'm not waiting for an answer to your question, but I think it's certainly worth asking.

But broken skull upright two-legged creatures that do not belong to the line that led to humans, suggests that our ancestors killed many even in Eden.
Civilization has evolved not from Abel but from Cain, his murderer.

The price we pay for a vision of the future is anxiety about it.

"Why is the Moon round?" - asks kid. Why is the grass green? Where are the dreams? To what depth you can dig a tunnel? Why do your feet have fingers? Too often teachers and parents dismiss such questions with disdain, even mockery or in a hurry to change the subject, "what the Moon has to be square?" Children quickly realize that these adults do not like. Some repeat the negative experience and another child is lost to science. For the life of me, I do not understand why the adults wanted to pretend to be omniscient and to whom - before the six-year-olds! Could not honestly say that you don't know something? Such fragile self-esteem?

Books are proof that humans can work magic.
(Books break the shackles of time, proving that humans are capable of magic.)

We live in a society dependent on science and technology in which nobody knows nothing about science, nothing about technology.

Someone said that astronomy teaches humility and builds character. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we ever knew.

The cosmos is within us, we are made of matter, we are the way the Cosmos knows itself.

What of the geniuses laugh, does not mean that if someone laugh, then it is necessarily a genius. Laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But just as they laughed at the red-haired clown bozo.

The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph, briefly become masters of this grit. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

One of the saddest lessons of history is that if we've been bamboozled long enough we tend to reject any evidence of deception. We don't want to seek the truth. The bamboozle has captured us: too painful to admit - even to themselves - that we were so gullible.