# The Future Belongs to Those Societies That Treat New Ideas as Delicate Fragile and Immensely Valuable Pathways to the Future by Carl Sagan > "The future belongs to those societies that treat new ideas as delicate, fragile and immensely valuable pathways to the future." > **— Carl Sagan**, *The Dragons of Eden* *Verification Status: Unverified — exact wording or authorship still requires direct inspection of the named work.* ## Sources and Context - **Attributed work:** *The Dragons of Eden*. - **Verification record:** [Carl Sagan quotations with work citations](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan) and [The Carl Sagan Portal bibliography](https://carlsagan.com/books/) — The supplied research dossier attributes this wording to the named work, but the exact sentence was not independently matched in the work-cited verification record. It remains in the verification queue rather than being represented as source-final. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Whole Earth|Whole Earth]] - **Article:** [[articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Greatest Transformation in Human History|The Greatest Transformation in Human History]] - **Article:** [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Carl Sagan|Carl Sagan]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "The future belongs to those societies that treat new ideas as delicate, fragile and immensely valuable pathways to the future." — Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-carl-sagan-societies-value-new-ideas ```