Philosophy Quote by Carl Sagan — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”

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

“Our God Is Alive and Well. Sorry About Yours.”

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”

“The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature. The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore we've learned most of what we know. Recently we've waded a little way out, maybe ankle deep, and the water seems inviting. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return. And we can. Because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”

“It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.”

“Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.”

“Ignore a person kill the person.”

“I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it’s like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.”

“Humanities without sciences are helpless, sciences without humanities are lifeless.”

“Everyone is the other and no one is himself.”

“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”