Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others? Thatโs who we are! Weโre not who we say we are, weโre not who we want to be - we are the sum of the influence and impact that we have, in our lives, on others.
Carl SaganThe vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star.
Carl SaganFor a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.
Carl SaganTime spent with children is time well spent. Their little minds are not constrained by 'reality' or focused upon goals. Anything and everything is possible. Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan