“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.”
“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 Spacehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g
Who said scientists can't be poets? When presented with indisputable proof that all of that, all of us, make a minuscule, barely perceivab... 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 Spacehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g
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?
I watched Cosmos when I was young. It was like a privilege to attend the DPS conference in 1989 and hear Sagan present a paper and say "stuff" the way he did on the program.
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Spacehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2gWho said scientists can't be poets? When presented with indisputable proof that all of that, all of us, make a minuscule, barely perceivab... show more
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Spacehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2gWho 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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