A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. – Carl Sagan
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and 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. – Carl Sagan
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. – Carl Sagan
If we like them, theyre freedom fighters . . . If we dont like them, theyre terrorists. In the unlikely case we cant make up our minds, theyre temporarily only guerrillas. – Carl Sagan
I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements to cure the world of social evils, for I would rather a man be a committed humanist than an uncommitted Christian. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Strength to Love, 1963