Imagination Carl Sagan Quotes & Sayings

A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone. — Carl Sagan

Dirk Gently has been a long passion (my career started with Douglas Adams and my stage adaptation of Dirk Gently) . — Arvind Ethan David

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers. — Whoopi Goldberg

It's not Americans I find annoying; it's Americanism: a social disease of the postindustrial world that must inevitably infect each of the mercantile nations in turn, and is called 'American' only because your nation is the most advanced case of the malady, much as one speaks of Spanish flu, or Japanese Type-B encephalitis. It's symptoms are a loss of work ethic, a shrinking of inner resources, and a constant need for external stimulation, followed by spiritual decay and moral narcosis. You can recognize the victim by his constant efforts to get in touch with himself, to believe his spiritual feebleness is an interesting psychological warp, to construe his fleeing from responsibility as evidence that he and his life are uniquely open to new experiences. In the later stages, the sufferer is reduced to seeking that most trivial of human activities: fun. — Trevanian

Some evidence suggests the left-handers are more likely to have problems with such left-hemisphere functions as reading, writing, speaking and arithmetic; and to be more adept at such right -hemisphere functions as imagination, pattern recognition and general creativity. — Carl Sagan

But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily cohabiting modes of thought that are central to the scientific method. — Carl Sagan

Our faith is really proven in the way we talk to ourselves. The loudest human voice you will listen to is your own. Choose your words wisely. — Christine Caine

She looked out at the other trees, and she realised that her life was one of thousands, any one of which could have been her, she had grown wherever her life had taken her, she had drifted wherever the wind had blown her. — Dave McKean

The grace of God is dangerous. It's lavish, excessive, outrageous, and scandalous. God's grace is ridiculously inclusive. Apparently God doesn't care who He loves. He is not very careful about the people He calls His friends or the people He calls His church. — Mike Yaconelli

Then a year would go by and I'd realize I love the acting too much and it is my identity and I don't know how to be anything but an actress. It's who and what I am, so I always come back. — Delta Burke

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere. — Carl Sagan

It is not wise for us to permit a few people on the Federal Reserve Board to have life and death power over our economy. My recommendation for reducing some of that power is to repeal legal tender laws and eliminate all taxes on gold, silver and platinum transactions. That way there would be money substitutes and the government money monopoly would be reduced and hence the ability to tax - some people would say steal from - us through inflation. — Walter E. Williams

Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives. — Charles Bukowski

The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words. — Bill Irwin

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying. — Polly Toynbee

If peace is what every government says it seeks, and peace is the yearning of every heart, why aren't we studying it and teaching it in schools? — Colman McCarthy

We wish to find the truth, no matter where it lies. But to find the truth we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact. — Carl Sagan