Authors
Carl Sagan
1934 – 1996
Carl Sagan was an astronomer who helped millions of people fall in love with the stars. He wrote and hosted Cosmos, a TV show that explained the whole universe in simple, wonder-filled words, and worked on NASA's Voyager missions, where he convinced engineers to turn the spacecraft's camera back toward Earth from billions of miles away to capture the famous "Pale Blue Dot" photograph. He believed science belonged to everyone, not just experts.
Quotes
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff.”
“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”
“For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.”
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
“We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.”
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were.”
“The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.”
“What an astonishing thing a book is.”
“The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.”
“No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain we can change ourselves.”
“All my life, I've wondered about life beyond the earth.”
“We wish to pursue the truth no matter where it leads — but to find the truth, we need imagination and skepticism both.”
“Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you.”
“We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”