# Quote — Carl Sagan, Cosmos

> The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the cosmos itself undergoes an immense and indeed an infinite number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond […] to those of modern scientific cosmology.

- Author: [Carl Sagan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan.md)
- Book: [Cosmos](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/cosmos.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan#Cosmos_(1980)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/cosmos/the-hindu-religion

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> For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.

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> If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

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