“One trend that bothers me is the glorification of stupidity, that the media is reassuring people it’s all right not to know anything - that in a way it’s cool.” - Carl Sagan, Pacific Rim TransTech Conference 1995

“We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited behaviour patterns of lizards and baboons. We are, each of us, largerly responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about” - Carl Sagan, COSMOS

“The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science.” - Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan, Give Us Hope: An Open Letter to the Next President (with Ann Druyan) 1988

Of all the thirty-five anniversaries of this iconic image, today’s is the grimmest. Those in power ransack our future and steer us toward catastrophe. “…there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.”

“The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them…”

Jimmy Carter’s message about the Voyager Spacecraft

Jimmy Carter (Oct 1st, 1924 - Dec 29th, 2024)

“If we become even slightly more violent, shortsighted, ignorant, and selfish than we are now, almost certainly we will have no future” - Pale Blue Dot, by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan

The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan