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

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

“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”

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

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

“The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)”

“The many sorrows of our recent history suggest that we humans have a learning disability.”

“There is a ground. A knowing, below the feeling, that this day — this particular, unrepeatable, never-to-come-again arrangement of hours — has been given. Not happened. Given. And that the One who gave it is present in every hour of it, available in every moment, closer than the heartbeat.”

“Each person you meet”

“Unfortunately, modern man has become so focused on harnessing nature's resources that he has forgotten how to learn from them. If you let them, however, the elements of nature will teach you as they have taught me.”

“If we take the position that an assessment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism is not possible because we are all “on our own journey,” then moral assessment becomes completely impossible or is speciesist. It is impossible because if we are all “on our own journey,” then there is nothing to say to the racist, sexist, anti-semite, homophobe, etc. If we say that those forms of discrimination are morally bad, but, with respect to animals, we are all “on our own journey” and we cannot make moral assessments about, for instance, dairy consumption, then we are simply being speciesist and not applying the same moral analysis to nonhumans that we apply to the human context.”

“Since there is no real silence,”