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.
More Quotes from Carl Edward Sagan:
The significance of a finding that there are other beings who share this universe with us would be absolutely phenomenal, it would be an epochal event in human history,Carl Edward Sagan
My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence is provided by such a God. We would be unappreciative of that gift ... if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves.
Carl Edward Sagan
You can't convince a believer of anything for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe.
Carl Edward Sagan
Are we an exceptionally unlikely accident or is the universe brimming over with intelligence (It's) a vital question for understanding ourselves and our history,
Carl Edward Sagan
We have swept through all of the planets in the solar system, from Mercury to Neptune, in a historic 20 (to) 30 year age of spacecraft discovery,
Carl Edward Sagan
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.
Carl Edward Sagan
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