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The evidence, so far at least and laws of Nature aside, does not require a Designer. Maybe there is one hiding, maddeningly unwilling to be revealed. Sometimes it seems a very slender hope.
— Carl Sagan
Now, it would be wholly foolish to deny the existence of laws of nature. And if that is what we are talking about when we say God, then no one can possibly be an atheist, or at least anyone who would profess atheism would have to give a coherent argument about why the laws of nature are inapplicable. I think he or she would be hard-pressed. So with this latter definition of God, we all believe in God.
— Carl Sagan
Things had been falling down since the beginning of time.
— Carl Sagan
Geometry existed before the Creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã‚¦ Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã‚¦ Geometry is God Himself." In
— Carl Sagan
Nietzsche mourns the loss of "man's belief in his dignity, his uniqueness, his irreplace-ability in the scheme of existence." For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
— Carl Sagan
Na Arean sat alone in space as a cloud that floats in nothingness. He slept not, for there was no sleep; he hungered not, for as yet there was no hunger. So he remained for a great while, until a thought came to his mind. He said to himself, I will make a thing.
— Carl Sagan
We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum star in the remotest corner of an obscure galaxy. And
— Carl Sagan
all the atoms that make each of us up—the iron in our blood, the calcium in our bones, the carbon in our brains—were manufactured in red giant stars thousands of light-years away in space and billions of years ago in time. We are, as I like to say, starstuff.
— Carl Sagan
Some people might kill it." "It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness." He continued to carry both twig and larva.
— Carl Sagan
We are, you and I, at least one of the ways that the Universe knows itself
— Carl Sagan
Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
To be loved means to be recognized as existing.
— Thich Nhat Hanh