F. Sagan Universe Quotations

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

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 planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are

Are we an exceptionally unlikely accident or is the universe brimming over with intelligence? (It's) a vital question for understanding ourselves and our history,

The significance of a finding that there are other beings who share this universe with us would be absolutely phenomenal, it would be an epochal event in human history,