Carl Sagan Quotes

You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. "Theories of Time and Space

What wonderful thing didn't start out scary?

Through the Unknown, we'll find the New

Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path that never will be trod again. Wanderer, there is no road-- Only wakes upon the sea. Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más; caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. Caminante, no hay camino, sino estelas en la mar.

No, everything is not going to be okay. It never is. It isn't okay now. Change, by definition, changes things

We can know a lot. And still, no doubt, there are rash and wonderful ideas brewing somewhere; there are many surprises yet to come.

It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo.

I guess we’ll be traveling in uncharted waters.” “That’ll be fun,” Phil said.

If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it's new you are confronting problems and challenges you don't have references for.

One thing we know for sure is that change is certain. Progress is not. Progress depends on the choices we make today for tomorrow and on whether we meet our challenges and protect our values.

To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery.

The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

Taking a new step. . .is what people fear most.

Scientific Progress goes boink?

Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.

A new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.

There is no way of truly knowing where a road will lead until it is walked.

I fear there will be no future for those who do not change.

There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.

So we all embark wondering what lies over the horizon, what’s around the next bend. And isn’t that, in the end, what drives us?

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

Some things are going to work, some aren't. But there's always something new going on, so it's fun to watch and see what's coming next.

Hope and change are hard-fought things.