Carl Sagan

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.