Carl Sagan

More from Carl Sagan

• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.

  Cosmos (1980), p. 4

  • Inspiration

• For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

  Contact (1985), Chapter 24 (p. 430)

  • Love

• We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. That’s a clear prescription for disaster.

  Bringing Science Down to Earth (1994), co-authored with Anne Kalosh, in Hemispheres (October 1994), p. 99

  • Science
  • Technology

All 27 quotes from Carl Sagan

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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