Quotes About Sagan

A still more glorious dawn awaits / not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise / a morning filled with 400 billion suns / the rising of the milky way

Unfortunate though interesting choice, since it could almost convince you that some cosmic truth of our existence slips in no matter how much Sagan and Druyan tried to control it. Waldheim's dead now. Lots of the people on this record are dead now. We sent ghost stories up into space.

Carl Sagan's 'Pale Blue Dot' is where I got the title 'Momentary Masters.'

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. —Carl Sagan

No sé lo que me reserva el pasado (como diría Sagan), pero sigo avanzando, en el maravillado terror, porque no tengo otra elección, avanzo, menos despreocupado que otras veces, pero avanzo de todos modos, avanzo a pesar de todo, avanzo y os juro que resulta hermoso.

Scientists tend to come in two stripes: those who have tremendous appetite and aptitude for the details, and those who illuminate the big picture. Sagan was definitely in the latter category, and he was profoundly good at it. He made connections that others did not have the intellectual breadth or courage to make.

If it takes a little myth and ritual to get us through a night that seems endless, who among us cannot sympathize and understand?

But you reassure yourself that at least here they are safe from baleen whales and oil slicks and cocktail sauce.

If ever there was an avian candidate for psychotherapy, the male blue heron is our nominee.

The cognitive abilities of chimpanzees force us, I think, to raise searching questions about the boundaries of the community of beings to which special ethical considerations are due.

Los demonios venden; los bromistas son aburridos y de mal gusto.

In a novel of ideas, the ideas have to work.

Considering all of the above, Sagan seems not only to have been an astronomer and a fiction writer, but also something of an intuitive "seer.

Our home planet, as Carl Sagan put it, is a "pale blue dot" . . . The "Pale Blue Dot" is a moving soliloquy by Carl Sagan in his 1980 television series Cosmos. The remake of this series, which aired in 2014 and was hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson, replayed Sagan's soliloquy toward the end of the final episode (episode 13, "Unafraid of the Dark") with stunning graphics to illustrate that the Earth is a "mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.