# Carl Sagan's best quotes

'Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence', the apple pie and the universe, the pale blue dot: Carl Sagan's most quoted lines, from The Dragons of Eden, Broca's Brain, Cosmos and Pale Blue Dot.

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- May 4, 2021 · Adrián
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## Top 14

1. **The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we are.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Cosmos (1980).
2. **Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Broca's Brain (1979), chapter 5.
3. **If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Cosmos (1980).
4. **The best antidote to pseudoscience, I firmly believe, is science.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Broca's Brain (1979), chapter 5.
5. **Astronomically speaking, the USSR and the United States are the same place.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Cosmos (1980).
6. **People rarely appreciate being shown their own credulity.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Broca's Brain (1979), chapter 5.
7. **Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Dragons of Eden (1977), introduction.
8. **Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Cosmos (1980).
9. **We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Cosmos (1980).
10. **Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Cosmos (1980).
11. **Nobody listens to mathematicians.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Cosmos (1980).
12. **Whether we believe in God depends very much on what we mean by God.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Broca's Brain (1979), chapter 23.
13. **Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Pale Blue Dot (1994), on the photo of Earth taken by Voyager 1.
14. **We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Cosmos (1980).

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