"Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot." – Carl Sagan

“When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.” — Isaac Asimov

"Maxwell's equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents." — Carl Sagan

“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” — George Orwell, 1984

“An organism at war with itself is doomed.” ― Carl Sagan

“She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.” ― Carl Sagan, Contact

"Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back." ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ― Margaret Mead

“If it takes a little myth and ritual to get us through a night that seems endless, who among us cannot sympathize and understand?” ― Carl Sagan

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead.” ― Albert Einstein

On this day, a child was born who left an indelible mark on human history, transforming our understanding of the world. Famous for his long hair, he unraveled the mysteries of the heavens and brought light to the world. Happy Birthday, Sir Isaac Newton. (Born Dec 25, 1642, Julian Calendar)

“Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.” 📷 NASA/ESA/Hubble

NGC 2264, 2,700 light-years away in Monoceros, is a star-forming region known as the Christmas Tree Cluster, Fox Fur, and Unicorn Nebula. Spanning 80 light-years, it features vibrant emission and reflection nebulae shaped by energetic newborn stars. Credit: Michael Kalika

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984

Do people reject science because they don't understand it? Or because they simply don't like the answers?

Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's.

“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology.” ― Edward O. Wilson

“Of all things, I liked books best.” ― Nikola Tesla

“I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgements.” ― Carl Sagan

“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” ― Oscar Wilde

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right." ― Martin Luther King Jr

"Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back." ― Carl Sagan

“We make our purpose.” - Carl Sagan

"The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think." ― Albert Einstein

“The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.” ― Carl Sagan

“There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.” ― Carl Sagan

“Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.” ― Carl Sagan, Contact

“Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.” ― Isaac Asimov

"It is important to distinguish between the amount of information and the quality of that information." — Carl Sagan

"If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read." — Carl Sagan

"Science is not perfect. It's often misused. It's only a tool. But it's the best tool we have." — Carl Sagan

"If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go” ― Carl Sagan

"People’s opinions are mainly designed to make them feel comfortable; truth, for most people is a secondary consideration." — Bertrand Russell

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." — Plato

Pristine samples from asteroid Bennu, collected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, contain six types of sugar essential to life, including ribose and glucose.

“Real scientist are delighted when they find out they wrong... There are too many people in this world who want to be right. And too few who just want to know.” ― Brian Cox

I am all for miracles because the universe we live in is far richer than we can imagine. The alchemy of stars, hydrogen atoms seemingly awakening to explore themselves, the scale and depth of everything around us... nothing we know is short of a miracle.

“It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“The world is not magic — and that’s the most magical thing about it.” — Sean Carroll

We are flooded with information yet starved of wisdom. Do you think the rise of AI will make things better, or worse?

"We invented phonetic writing so we could put our sounds down on paper and, by glancing at a page, hear someone speaking in our head—an invention that became so widespread in the last few thousand years that we hardly ever stop to consider how astonishing it is." -Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions

“Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.” ― Brian Cox, Wonders of the Universe

“The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.” ― Neil DeGrasse Tyson

“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.” ― Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth

"But if intelligence is our only edge, we must learn to use it better, to sharpen it, to understand its limitations and deficiencies—to use it as cats use stealth, as walking sticks use camouflage, to make it the tool of our survival." -Carl Sagan, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

"We wish to pursue the truth no matter where it leads - 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

"Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is co-ordinated and used. Still, the amount of information to which we have accessed is one index of our intelligence." -Carl Sagan, Cosmos