People · 1980
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
— Carl Sagan ‧ Cosmos
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Sagan argues that imagination can transport us to places that never truly existed. Yet he insists that without this leap, we remain stuck, unable to move forward at all. The line values imaginative thinking as essential fuel for progress, not mere escapism.
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