Travel Quotes by Carl Sagan

Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.

— Carl Sagan

To read is to voyage through time.

— Carl Sagan

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.

— Carl Sagan

We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.

— Carl Sagan

The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only…

— Carl Sagan

“Each Voyager is itself a message. In their exploratory intent, in the lofty ambition of their objectives, in their utter lack of…

— Carl Sagan

“...explorations that are exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge…

— Carl Sagan

“Voyages to the outer solar system are controlled from a single place on the planet Earth, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of…

— Carl Sagan

What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival. Travel is…

— Carl Sagan

“In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries you could travel from Holland to China in a year or two, the time it has…

— Carl Sagan

Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather…

— Carl Sagan

We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos…

— Carl Sagan

“The symbolism seemed so apt. The same technology that can propel apocalyptic weapons from continent to continent would enable the first human…

— Carl Sagan

“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

“We embarked on our journey to the stars with a question first framed in the childhood of our species and in each…

— Carl Sagan

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

“It is conventional wisdom now that anything built by the government will be a disaster. But the two "Voyager" spacecraft were built…

— Carl Sagan

“Planetary exploration satisfies our inclination for great enterprises and wanderings and quests that has been with us since our days as hunters…

— Carl Sagan

“We tend to hear much more about the splendors returned than the ships that brought them or the shipwrights. It has always…

— Carl Sagan

Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores…

— Carl Sagan

“Our particular causality scheme has brought us to a modest and rudimentary, although in many respects heroic, series of explorations. But it…

— Carl Sagan