Carl Sagan Quotes

Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.

Every star has been set in the sky. We mistakenly think they were put there for us.

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

A hundred thousand million Stars make one Galaxy; A hundred thousand million Galaxies make one Universe. The figures may not be very trustworthy, but I think they give a correct impression.

...and I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible.

On a really dark night, you can see between 1,000 and 1,500 stars, and there are millions more that haven't been discovered. It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you, but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all. -Brian Fitzgerald

For the Earth is only an atom in the universe of worlds.

This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments?

Look up at the stars and you're gone.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

We're just one rock surrounded by this immense universe.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.

If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special,' you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth.

There are at least as many galaxies in our observable universe as there are stars in our galaxy.

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

Man must rise above the Earth -- to the top of the atmosphere and beyond -- for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.

It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'