Born in 1934, Sagan attended the University of Chicago, earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics by 1956, per Britannica. He went on to work at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory from 1962 to 1968. He researched the “physical conditions of planets,” specifically Venus and Jupiter. He then went on to be the director of Cornell University’s Laboratory for Planetary Studies, which is where he stayed until he died of pneumonia in 1996 at the age of 62.
As Britannica reported, Sagan made it a point and his primary focus to be a “spokesman for science and a popularizer of astronomy,” even though he did conduct significant research on planetary atmospheres and the origin of life (in astrobiology). And through his work as a writer and presenter in popular media, he shared today’s quote, which sheds some light on how creativity and imagination got us to different worlds.
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Sagan said this quote in the 1980 science docuseries, Cosmos. Since it was a mini-series, it only had one season and 13 episodes. According to IMDb, he was the presenter and main face in the series, as well as a co-creator and co-writer for the show, alongside Ann Druyan and Steve Soter.
It premiered on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in 1980 and “was the most widely watched series in the history of American public television until The Civil War,” which premiered a decade later, per CosmoLearning. Despite that, it still holds the title of “the most widely watched PBS series in the world” and won an Emmy and a Peabody Award.
The first part of Sagan’s quote can be taken two ways: he’s either saying that our imagination can carry us to places in search of worlds that actually don’t exist, or it can carry us to places that we didn’t know existed until we went there. Though he's most likely saying the former. Either way, he notes that the power we have to create in our mind is what can propel us anywhere we want.
And that brings us to the end of Sagan’s quote. Without inventiveness, we would be stuck right where we are. Imagination is our jetpack, our rocket, and without it we have no power to go to places we want to explore.
More Quotes from Carl Sagan
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”“Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.”“Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light.”“By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.”“I think if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.”Up Next:
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