Quote by Carl Sagan (about Imagination)

Quote by Carl Sagan (about Imagination)

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

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Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

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Ideas can only be useful when they come to life in many minds.

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I am not the least afraid to die.

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Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science - for to fill your heart with love is enough!

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Cogito, ergo sum. I think; therefore I am.

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I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.

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