Nick Sagan Quotes

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

Science is but an image of the truth.

The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.

The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Practice being curious; want to know things; ask questions.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.