For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness. What new wonders, undreamt of in our time, will we have wrought in another generation?

Carl Sagan

Buy A Pale Blue Dot at Amazon Buy A Pale Blue Dot at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Technological progress Progress Human potential Human nature

Speaker

Carl Sagan

Source

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Language

English

Time

1994 1990s 20th century

Occupation

Astronomer Scientist

From

United States

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Sagan, Carl. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space. Random House, 1994.

Illustrated Quote

A quote by Carl Sagan about technological progress: “For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we…”
Download
A quote by Carl Sagan about technological progress: “For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we…”
Download
A quote by Carl Sagan about technological progress: “For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we…”
Download

Related Quotes

Below are one or more quotes that share at least one tag with the quote at the top of the page

Another quote about Human nature

Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.

Immanuel Kant

More information about this quote
Topic
Imperfection Human nature

Author

Immanuel Kant
Source
Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose
Medium
Essay
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
German
Time
1784 1780s 18th century
Era
Age of Enlightenment
Authentication Score 2
Citation

Kant, Immanuel. "Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltbürgerlicher Absicht [Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose]." Berlinische Monatsschrift, Nov. 1784.