Carl Sagan Quotes & Sayings

26 most famous Carl Sagan quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American scientist who passed away on 20 December, 1996.

“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”

“Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.”

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”

“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.”

“We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.”