Carl Sagan Quotes

Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.

We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.

Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit.

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

One can not impede scientific progress.

No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

In recent times, modern science has developed to give mankind, for the first time in the history of the human race, a way of securing a more abundant life which does not simply consist in taking away from someone else.... Science really creates wealth and opportunity which did not exist before.

America is now a space-faring nation ... a frontier good for millions of years. The only time remotely comparable was when Columbus discovered the New World.

Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.

Modern civilization depends on science …

Who brings tomorrow into the present if not the scientists, technicians and engineers?

... science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

Never bet against science!

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.

Sciences evolve.

The way to solve problems in the world is to become scientists and technologists and build things that haven't been built before and discover things that people really don't know about.

As humans, we've always innovated our way out of problems, whether it was the first torch to light a dark cave or the steam engine that sparked a revolution.

We are a country of Newton, Hodgson, and Turing. Ours is a country of ideas, invention and discovery and is truly a national history.

So, we've gone from covered wagons to going to the moon in just under 100 years. For all the centuries and thousands of years before us, people walked or rode horses, cows, camels or whatever. This so-called modern era, from the late 19th century through now, has been the period of the most amazing development, discovery, innovation and acceleration of change that humans have ever experienced. And it hasn't slowed down yet.