We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival. Travel is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Voyages to the outer solar system are controlled from a single place on the planet Earth, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Each Voyager is itself a message. In their exploratory intent, in the lofty ambition of their objectives, in their utter lack of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“...explorations that are exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Our particular causality scheme has brought us to a modest and rudimentary, although in many respects heroic, series of explorations. But it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The symbolism seemed so apt. The same technology that can propel apocalyptic weapons from continent to continent would enable the first human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“What was an infant's view of air travel? You go to a special place, walk into a large room with seats in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Imagine we could accelerate continuously at 1 g-what we're comfortable with on good old terra firma-to the midpoint of our voyage, and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“We embarked on our journey to the stars with a question first framed in the childhood of our species and in each… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“It is conventional wisdom now that anything built by the government will be a disaster. But the two "Voyager" spacecraft were built… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“We tend to hear much more about the splendors returned than the ships that brought them or the shipwrights. It has always… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Planetary exploration satisfies our inclination for great enterprises and wanderings and quests that has been with us since our days as hunters… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries you could travel from Holland to China in a year or two, the time it has… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
“Telepathy’ literally means to feel at a distance, just as ‘telephone’ is to hear at a distance and ‘television’ is to see at a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
“On the scale of worlds—to say nothing of stars or galaxies—humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams! — Carl Sagan Copy Share
“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
Any sufficiently crisp question can be answered by a single binary digit-0 or 1, yes or no. — Carl Sagan Copy Share
Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
