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Even in Death, Carl Sagan never ceases to inspire.

Carl Sagan on human exploration of space:

Human beings are a curious, inquisitive, exploratory species.

I think that has been the secret of our success as a species.

We now have reached a point in human history, when all the Earth is explored; there are no new places to explore on the Earth.

At just this moment, these spacecraft permit us, in a halting, tentative, preliminary way, to leave the Earth and examine our surroundings in space.

An enterprise which I believe is in the truest human tradition of exploration and discovery.

We are at an epochal moment. Our machines, and eventually ourselves, are going out into space. I believe that the history of our species will never again be the same.

We have committed ourselves to space, and I do not think we are about to turn back.

Artefacts from the Earth are spinning out into the cosmos. I believe the time will come when most human cultures will be engaged in an activity we might describe as a dandelion going to seed.

From his 1977 CHRISTMAS LECTURES, animated for our 2015 advent calendar.