More quotes by Carl Sagan

"[When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996:]If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion, why do you not believe in materialistic science, which has an unparalleled record of fulfilled prophecy? Consider, for example, eclipses."
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
"I don't want to believe. I want to know."
"If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth."
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."