“There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
— Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994 planetary.org/worlds/pale-blue… #science #space
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •“Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” ―
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Spaceyoutube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2…Who said scientists can't be poets? When presented with indisputable proof that all of that, all of us, make a minuscule, barely perceivable
... show more“Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” ―
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Spaceyoutube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2…Who said scientists can't be poets? When presented with indisputable proof that all of that, all of us, make a minuscule, barely perceivable footprint no larger than a random electrostatic discharge event on a sensor still well within our own Solar system, heck, it puts things into perspective, doesn't it?
Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot
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