The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature.
Carl SaganThe prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee.
Carl SaganSome racists still reject the plain testimony written in the DNA that all the races are not only human but nearly indistinguishable. . . .
Carl SaganWriting a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else.
Carl SaganSocieties will, of course, wish to exercise prudence in deciding which technologies that is, which applications of science are to be pursued and which not. But without funding basic research, without supporting the acquisition of knowledge for its own sake, our options become dangerously limited.
Carl Sagan