“Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.”
More from Carl Sagan on Science
“Science gropes and staggers toward improved understanding.”
“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”
“There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.”
“We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be.”
“Liberation from superstition is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for science.”
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
Others on Science
Richard Dawkins
5 quotes“Science is the poetry of reality.”
Jules Verne
3 quotes“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by l...”
Tesla
2 quotes“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previou...”
Atatürk
2 quotes“Our true mentor in life is science.”
Alfred Whitehead
2 quotes“Science is a river with two sources, the practical source and the theoretical source.”
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
2 quotes“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
Dalai Lama
2 quotes“We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must...”
Thomas Hardy
2 quotes“If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.”
Galileo
2 quotes“Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.”
George Carlin
2 quotes“Electricity is really just organized lightning.”
Agatha Christie
1 quote“Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.”
Arthur C. Clarke
1 quote“Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.”