Carl Sagan Quotes

My interest in science started in junior high school where an outstanding science teacher, Mrs. Baumgardner, introduced me to the joys of science.

Science is cool! But it's easy for that to get lost in textbooks sometimes.

If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'

I was, from early on, interested in science. And my parents were very obliging about that. My father used to take me to the museum of natural history, and I knew much more scientific stuff early on. From the time I was 11 or 12, I wanted to be a mathematician.

I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.

Most kids at 10 or 11 love science, but I never outgrew it.

I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.

I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more.

I discovered how science is truly a universal language, one that forges new connections among individuals and opens the mind to ideas that go far beyond the classroom.

To my disappointment, not many young people seem to be interested in science, especially chemistry.

I attended elementary school and high school in Mexico City. I was already fascinated by science before entering high school; I still remember my excitement when I first glanced at paramecia and amoebae through a rather primitive toy microscope.

I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.

Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.

When I was in elementary school, I was very interested in science already. I must have been ten or eleven years old. I started experiments with chemistry sets at my home in Mexico. I was able to borrow a bathroom and convert it to a laboratory. My parents supported it. They were pleased. My friends just tolerated it.

I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.

Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.

I really like that my work is getting more people interested in science.

I missed the basic curiosity of being in the lab.

I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.

I wish there would be more movies about scientists.

Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

Our security and independence require that more young people devote themselves to science and research.

Under the old American system the whole body of students at a university were confined to a single course, for which the majority cared little and very many cared nothing, and, as a result, widespread idleness and dissipation were inevitable. Under the new system, presenting various courses, and especially courses in various sciences, appealing to different tastes and aims, the great majority of students are interested, and consequently indolence and dissipation have steadily diminished

Early childhood education packs a real wallop in terms of the return on the investment.

We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the public. Man has a fundamental urge to comprehend the world about him …