Carl Sagan
"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
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"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
"We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces."