Thousands of people have used this phrase. For this particular phrase, there has never been a page number, and a scroll through Wikiquote finds it right at the top of the “misattributed” section. But most of the time, if you look through enough sites with his quotes (or consult Wikiquote), you can find an exact citation and page number, pointing towards a source you can check yourself. I can’t claim to have read every piece of Sagan’s published writing in existence. It has a lovely, but very easily Pinterest-able sentiment. I’ve seen it in giant typeface on the wall of the Cornell University store, and on a T-shirt at the Hayden Planetarium. If you search for the quote that NASA Administrator Bill Nelson used to conclude the recent JWST livestream-“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known”-you’ll find a barrage of these words against spiraling galaxies and long-exposed skies, with the occasional image of Carl Sagan himself, floating happily amongst the stars.
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