Carl Sagan Cosmos Quotes

#1. Humans everywhere share the same goals when the context is large enough. And the study of the Cosmos provides the largest possible context.

Carl Sagan

#2. In a slick manifesto called Cosmos, Carl Sagan artfully packaged his own creed: The Cosmos is all there is, or was, or ever will be.

Charles W. Colson

#3. The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

Carl Sagan

#4. I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.

Carl Sagan

#5. We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be.

Carl Sagan

#6. The desire to be connected with the cosmos reflects a profound reality, but we are connected; not in the trivial ways that astrology promises, but in the deepest ways.

Carl Sagan

#7. Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth.

Carl Sagan

#8. I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated.

Carl Sagan

#9. In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.

Carl Sagan

#10. The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.

Carl Sagan

#11. The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

Carl Sagan

#12. 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, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.

Carl Sagan

#13. The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.

Carl Sagan

#14. Meanwhile the Cosmos is rich beyond measure: the total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.

Carl Sagan

#15. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.

Carl Sagan

#16. Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition.

Carl Sagan

#17. Cosmos is closed and light cannot escape from it, then it may be perfectly correct to describe the universe as a black hole. If you wish to know what it is like inside a black hole, look around you.

Carl Sagan

#18. The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.

Carl Sagan

#19. We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery.

Carl Sagan

#20. The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths / of exquisite interrelationships / of the awesome machinery of nature

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#21. The total amount of energy from outside the solar system ever received by all the radio telescopes on the planet Earth is less than the energy of a single snowflake striking the ground.

Carl Sagan

#22. Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I'm stricken
by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain
everythingness of everything, in cahoots
with the everythingness of everything else.
- From Diffraction (for Carl Sagan)

Diane Ackerman

#23. We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos.

Carl Sagan

#24. In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.
[Dedication to Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, in Cosmos]

Carl Sagan

#25. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

Carl Sagan

#26. The Cosmos is rich beyond measure - in elegant facts, in exquisite interrelationships, in the subtle machinery of awe.

Carl Sagan

#27. Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness of all things. It conveys awe for the intricate and subtle way in which the universe is put together.

Carl Sagan

#28. There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

Carl Sagan

#29. The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths.

Carl Sagan

#30. The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

Carl Sagan

#31. Which aspects of our nature will prevail is uncertain, particularly when our visions and prospects are bound to one small part of the small planet Earth. But up there in the Cosmos an inescapable perspective awaits.

Carl Sagan

#32. [an encounter in space] Some celestial event. No
no words
no words to describe it. Poetry! They should have sent a poet. So beautiful. So beautiful ... I had no idea. I had no idea.

Carl Sagan

#33. If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.

Carl Sagan

#34. Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.

Carl Sagan

#35. The cosmos is all there is, all there ever was, and all there ever will be.

Carl Sagan

#36. We grow up in isolation. Only slowly do we teach ourselves the Cosmos.

Carl Sagan