The very first clip of COSMOS—this is where it all began. A voyage from the shores of Earth's oceans to the infinite expanses of the Milky Way, Andromeda, and beyond. Thank you, Carl, for taking us on this journey. We remain forever in your debt.

The atoms within you once burned in the heart of stars, chaotic and lifeless, and yet here you are, after half a dozen or so billion years, arranging them into love, questions, and hope. You are a miracle, a thermodynamic miracle.

Sam Harris on God, Christianity, and Morality. 🎥 University of Notre Dame

Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They

We are no longer interested in finding the truth!

It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out. - Carl Sagan

On our own world a long-standing—and in some respects quite promising—experiment has been under way on the evolution of matter. The oldest known fossils are about 3.6 billion years old. Of course, the origin of life had to have happened well before that. But 4.2 or 4.3 billion

I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb. - Richard Feynman

[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth. - Stephen W. Hawking.

"Look at the stars. It won’t fix the economy. It won’t stop wars. It won’t give you flat abs, or even help you figure out your relationship. But it’s important. It helps you to remember that you and your problems are both infinitesimally small and, conversely, that you are a

Most people inherit their beliefs. They rarely examine them.

A lesson on the greenhouse effect with Carl Sagan. 🎥: Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change

"I don't want to believe. I want to know.". - Carl Sagan

Every one of your hundred trillion cells contains a complete library of instructions on how to make every part of you. Every cell in your body arises by successive cell divisions from a single cell, a fertilized egg generated by your parents. Every time that cell divided, in the

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. - Bertrand Russell

The worst are full of confidence. The best are full of doubt. Guess who wins elections?.

In the last interview of his life (1996), astronomer Carl Sagan warned of the dangers that come when citizens cannot ask skeptical scientific questions of those in authority. Watch and ask: was he right?.

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Anthropology and biology show that morality existed long before organized religion. Ethical behavior isn’t exclusive to belief systems. Simply put, you don’t need religion to be moral.

"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."