Quotes from Carl Sagan, Cosmos

But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine beings.

It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.

A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

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

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

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

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

The secrets of evolution, are time and death. There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us.

Meanwhile the Cosmos is rich beyond measure: the total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.

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.

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.[Dedication to Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, in Cosmos]

For ages men had used sticks to club and spear each other—Anaximander of Miletus used the stick to measure time.

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.

Would not a rational society spend more on understanding and preventing, than on preparing for, the next war?