Carl Sagan's best quotes
The top 3 according to 10 votes from people: The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we are. · Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. · If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.. (Updated May 4, 2021.)
'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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Top 14
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we are.
Cosmos (1980).
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Broca's Brain (1979), chapter 5.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Cosmos (1980).
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The best antidote to pseudoscience, I firmly believe, is science.
Broca's Brain (1979), chapter 5.
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Astronomically speaking, the USSR and the United States are the same place.
Cosmos (1980).
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People rarely appreciate being shown their own credulity.
Broca's Brain (1979), chapter 5.
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
The Dragons of Eden (1977), introduction.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Cosmos (1980).
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.
Cosmos (1980).
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Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.
Cosmos (1980).
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Nobody listens to mathematicians.
Cosmos (1980).
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Whether we believe in God depends very much on what we mean by God.
Broca's Brain (1979), chapter 23.
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us.
Pale Blue Dot (1994), on the photo of Earth taken by Voyager 1.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
Cosmos (1980).
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