By looking far out into space we are also looking far back i... - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another."

"The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)"

"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."

"The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together."

"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."