"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another."
- Carl Sagan
"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."
"The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory..."
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
"We are star stuff harvesting sunlight."
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregat..."
"If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth."
"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they..."
"The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five."
"It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more 'numinous' than the Ressurec..."