The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species.
Carl SaganI think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.
Carl SaganThe usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.
Carl SaganThe method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.
Carl Sagan