9th November: Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan was born on this date in 1934. Here are 10 quotes from him:

1. Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
2. We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
3. Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
4. If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
5. For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
6. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
7. The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
8. The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
9. Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
10. It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.