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.
—Carl Sagan in Cosmos
—Carl Sagan in Cosmos
Carl Edward Sagan (; SAY-gən; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist and science communicator. Initially an assistant professor at Harvard, Sagan later moved to Cornell, where he was the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and directed the Laboratory for Planetary...
—Carl Sagan in Cosmos
Nobody listens to mathematicians
—Carl Sagan in Cosmos
—Carl Sagan in Cosmos
Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.
—Carl Sagan in Cosmos
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
—Carl Sagan in Cosmos
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.