“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
More from Carl Sagan on Philosophy
“Understanding is a kind of ecstasy”
“We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”
“The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”
“The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.”
“The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we are.”
“We are a way for the cosmos to know itself”
“But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine beings.”
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
“La prueba de ausencia no es prueba de ausencia”
Others on Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of...”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“All things flow nothing abides.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfaction...”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Buddha
13 quotes“Doubt everything. Find your own light.”