"For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love."

- Carl Sagan

"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."

- Carl Sagan

"the vastness is bearable only through love."

- Carl Sagan

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."

- Carl Sagan

"It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer."

- Carl Sagan