Cosmos Carl Sagan quotes

" In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. " # Pessimism # Love # Truth

" If you want to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the Universe. " # Pessimism

" The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. " # Competition

" Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out. " # Death and Dying

" Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? " # Prophecy

" Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. " # Faith

" Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. " # Despair

" One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. " # Books - Reading

" Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. " # Quotations # Science and Scientists # Thoughts and Thinking

" The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. " # Quotations