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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan
Life, Art, Motivation
Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.26, Ballantine Books

Perhaps, in retrospect, there would be little motivation even for malevolent extraterrestrials to attack the Earth; perhaps, after a preliminary survey, they might decide it is more expedient just to be patient for a little while and wait for us to self-destruct.

Carl Sagan
Motivation, Self, Waiting
Carl Sagan (2011). “Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium”, p.169, Ballantine Books

Goddard represented a unique combination of visionary dedication and technological brilliance. He studied physics because he needed physics to get to Mars. In reading the notebooks of Robert Goddard, I am struck by how powerful his exploratory and scientific motivations were - and how influental speculative ideas, even erroneous ones, can be on the shaping of the future.

Carl Sagan
Notebook, Motivation, Powerful
Carl Sagan (1979). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”, Random House Inc

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