Author: Carl Sagan

Cited by

• Raymond Khoury (1)
  • IN: The Devil's Elixir (2011) Fiction, Mystery Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: There is a lurking fear that some things are not meant to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make.
    FROM: Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science, (1979), Book, US
• Cristin Bishara (1)
  • IN: Relativity (2013) Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.
    FROM: Wonder and Skepticism, (1995), Article, US
• Neal Pollack (1)
  • IN: The Rosetta Cylinder (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us-there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries. In all the galaxies, there are perhaps as many planets as stars, ten billion trillion. In the face of such overpowering numbers, what is the likelihood that only one ordinary star, the Sun, is accompanied by an inhabited planet?
    FROM: Cosmos, (1980), Book, US
• Tim Lebbon (1)
  • IN: Alien: Out the Shadows (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
    FROM: Cosmos, (1980), Book, US
• James Rollins (1)
  • IN: The 6th Extinction (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
    FROM: The Varieties of Scientific Experience, (2007), Book, US/Germany
• Scott Mariani (1)
  • IN: The Nemesis Program (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: We’ve arranged a global civilisation in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We’ve also arranged things so that no one understands science or technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later, this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
    FROM: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, (1995), Book, US
• Daniel H. Wilson (1)
  • IN: Amped (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We can change ourselves. Think of the possibilities.
    FROM: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, episode 11, (1980), TV Show, US
• Chad Kultgen (1)
  • IN: Men Women & Children (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
    FROM: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, (1994), Book, US