For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl SaganTags: science truth knowledge religion understanding cosmology delusion
It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.
Carl SaganBy 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.
Carl SaganTags: science time space astronomy big-bang
The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted by people around the world; these phenomena spoke to our ancestors of the possibility of surviving death. Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality.
Carl SaganTags: science immortality astronomy
And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
Carl SaganThe lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.
Carl SaganTags: science life astronomy human-life
When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
Carl SaganTags: science stars astronomy night-sky
.. 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'
Carl SaganReligions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there's no reason why religions have to play that role. In a way, it's an artefact from times long gone.
Carl SaganTags: religion
Our particular causality scheme has brought us to a modest and rudimentary, although in many respects heroic, series of explorations. But it is far inferior to what might have been, and may one day be.
Carl SaganTags: inspirational
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