“We tend to hear much more about the splendors returned than the ships ...” — Carl Sagan Quote

“We tend to hear much more about the splendors returned than the ships that brought them or the shipwrights. It has always been that way. Even those history books enamored of the voyages of Christopher Columbus do not tell much about the builders of the Nina the Pinta and the Santa Maria or about the principle of the caravel. These spacecraft their designers builders navigators and controllers are examples of what science and engineering set free for well-defined peaceful purposes can accomplish. Those scientists and engineers should be role models for an America seeking excellence and international competitiveness. They should be on our stamps.”

“Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.”

“As science advances, there seems to be less and less for God to do. It's a big universe, of course, so He, She, or It, could be profitably employed in many places. But what has clearly been happening is that evolving before our eyes has been a God of the Gaps; that is, whatever it is we cannot explain lately is attributed to God. And then after a while, we explain it, and so that's no longer God's realm.”

“Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.”

“Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value the may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder.”

“What does this mean? Simply that to make DNA, you have to have DNA in the first place! You have to have the DNA code within the cell before you can make more DNA code. Without the complete code in the first place, there is no way to make the code necessary for every living cell!”

“I mean, we let you own a semiautomatic rifle with no questions asked, and you're free to drive a giant Escalade down the street even if you can barely see over the front bumper. But you can't hang a solar panel from the balcony of your apartment? Don't tread on my arrays, dude.”

“[...] science carries us towards an understanding of how the world is, rather than how we would wish it to be [...]”

“I'm here to tell you that your daughter is offering my daughter friendship under false pretenses.' And because he looked confused, she added, 'Your daughter is eating my daughter's lunch.”

“Condemnation before investigation, is the highest form of ignorance.”

“La vida es una Delta de Dirac. Todo fue muy rápido, cuando abrí los ojos ya estaba muerto.”