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  • The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

  • The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

    Nature   Science   World  
    Peter De Vries (2014). “Let Me Count the Ways: A Novel”, p.192, Open Road Media
  • It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

    Death   Witty   Atheist  
    Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.32, Ballantine Books
  • 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, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. 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.

    Carl Sagan (1994). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, Random House Incorporated
  • I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

    Funny   Humor   Science  
  • How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?

    Prophet   Subtle   Bigger  
    Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.71, Ballantine Books
  • Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

    Love   Life   Happiness  
    Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.5, Wildside Press LLC
  • Cosmology does, I think, affect the way that we perceive humanity's role in nature. One thing we've learnt from astronomy is that the future lying ahead is more prolonged than the past. Even our sun is less than halfway through its life.

    Lying   Past   Thinking  
  • How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.

    God   Science   Religion  
    "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space". Book by Carl Sagan, 1994.
  • To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

    Funny   Crazy   Silly  
    Foreword to "The Physics of Star Trek" by Lawrence Krauss, (p. xii), 2007.
  • There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

    Space   Earth Day   Tiny  
    Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.29, Ballantine Books
  • In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

    Funny   God   Crazy  
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "Fit the Fifth" (radio program) (1978)
  • Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

    Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.27, University Press of America
  • Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

    "Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the Twenty-First Century". Book by Michio Kaku, 1997.
  • God is infinite, so His universe must be too. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.

    "On the Infinite Universe and Worlds". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.
  • Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light.

    Light   Self   Cosmos  
    Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.29, Ballantine Books
  • We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

    "Der Spiegel", October 17, 1988.
  • .. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the 'Momentary' masters of a 'Fraction' of a 'Dot'

    Thinking   Blood   Rivers  
    Carl Sagan, Tom Head (2006). “Conversations with Carl Sagan”, p.16, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

    Nobel Award Ceremony Speech by Professor Olga Botner, Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2017.
  • There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

    Funny   Education   Humor  
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "Fit the Seventh" (radio program) (1978)
  • Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things.

  • A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.

    Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.71, Ballantine Books
  • All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

    "Angels in the workplace: stories and inspirations for creating a new world of work". Book by Melissa Giovagnoli, 1999.
  • The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience..... 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've ever known.

    Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.29, Ballantine Books
  • Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe. Every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

    "Hannes Alfvén: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents". Book by Anthony L. Peratt, p. 196, 1998.
  • Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

    Lonely   Dark   Cosmos  
    Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.29, Ballantine Books
  • Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo, a star shines on the hour of our meeting.

  • Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

    Home   Blue   Cosmos  
    Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.29, Ballantine Books
  • Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

    Life   Art   Motivation  
    Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.26, Ballantine Books
  • The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

    Science   Men   Thinking  
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