Quote #19
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
More from Carl Sagan
- We embarked on our cosmic voyage with a question first framed in the childhood of our species and in each generation asked anew with undimi…
- A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger.
- If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our quest…
- We are made of star stuff. For the most part, atoms heavier than hydrogen were created in the interiors of stars and then expelled into spa…
- For most of human history we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Who are we? What are we? We find that we inhabit an insignificant p…
- Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insights and knowledge, painfu…
- Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
- The choice is with us still, but the civilization now in jeopardy is all humanity. As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally…