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Carl Sagan on Valentine's Day

1934–1996 United States

← All quotes by Carl Sagan

4 quotes

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Contact (1985)

It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery.

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990)

If we seek... nature, then love can be informed by truth instead of being based on ignorance or self-deception.

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Carl Sagan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.