Carl Sagan Vastness Quotations

It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.

She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

We are one species. We are starstuff.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television.

In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.

But our preferences do not determine what's true.