Carl Sagan Quotes

One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

Science has promised us truth...It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Science is a fundamental part of our existence.

Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

I think that we scientists are seeking an understanding of the natural world. We come in various types - chemists and physicists and biologists and such - and we all have the same goal. We are making progress.

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.

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science—how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.

I always say to my students that being a scientist is like being an explorer, and I really mean that because, in a sense, I think in science we explore the world, the universe around us.

She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

I'm very interested in science.

Science is organized knowledge.

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.