Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away.
Carl SaganWhich 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 SaganIn the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.
Carl SaganRecent research shows that many children without enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn (โcognitive impairmentโ ). Children don't have to be starving for this to happen. Even mild undernourishment โ the kind most common among poor people in America โ can do it.
Carl Sagan