C.j. Durage

“Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“Since much of the ocean floor remains unexplored (except perhaps for still-classified data acquired by the U.S. and Soviet navies), we may know more about the surface topography of Venus than about any other planet, Earth included.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten. The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“On the scale of worlds—to say nothing of stars or galaxies—humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space