Carl SaganThinkers

Apple pie is never made from scratch. To really do so, one must first create the universe.

Atheism is not a disbelief in God, but an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.

Belief is not capable of being deterred because, above all else, belief is based on a deep-seated need to believe.

The Book is like a seed in that it can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

A Book is proof of magic, for it is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles endowed with a power whereby, when one glances at it, one hears the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you.

Cooking is never really done from scratch. If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

The Cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.

Earth is one voice in the cosmic fugue.

The Existence of god is doubtful on the grounds that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

God is at bottom nothing more than an exalted father.

Nuclear proliferation is an inducement of greater instability because of the potential for deliberate or accidental conflict and thus there is a need to enhance the global non-proliferation regime.