"Await once more at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, anybody y'all know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who always was, lived out their lives. The amass 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 rex and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and male parent, 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.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast catholic loonshit. Think of the endless cruelties visited past the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill 1 another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale calorie-free. Our planet is a lonely speck in the groovy enveloping cosmic nighttime. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The World is the only globe known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near hereafter, to which our species could migrate. Visit, aye. Settle, not nonetheless. Like information technology or non, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. In that location is possibly no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny globe. To me, it underscores our responsibleness to deal more kindly with 1 some other, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the just home we've e'er known."
― Carl Sagan, Pale Bluish Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Infinite
"How is it that hardly any major organized religion has looked at science and ended, "This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more than elegant?" Instead they say, "No, no, no! My god is a trivial god, and I want him to stay that way." A religion, sometime or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe equally revealed past modern scientific discipline might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths."
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Hereafter in Space
"Expect again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's usa. On information technology anybody you beloved, everyone yous know, everyone you e'er heard of, every man existence 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 begetter, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every decadent pol, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived in that location--on a mote of grit suspended in a sunbeam."
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Homo Future in Space
"The significance of our lives and our delicate planet is and so determined just past our own wisdom and courage. Nosotros are the custodians of life'due south meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive u.s.a. our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. Merely knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better past far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we require some catholic purpose, so allow us find ourselves a worthy goal."
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
"It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the earth of beauty and mystery. Just is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the mode we perceive the wavelengths of calorie-free, that transparent air reflects light, that in so doing information technology discriminates among the waves, and that the sky is blue for the aforementioned reason that the sunset is reddish? Information technology does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little scrap about it."
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blueish Dot: A Vision of the Man Futurity in Space
"Before we invented culture our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern forms of nocturnal amusement we watched the stars. There were applied calendar reasons of course but there was more than to it than that. Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When information technology happens to me subsequently all these years it still takes my breath away."
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human being Time to come in Infinite
"From this distant vantage indicate, the Globe might not seem of item interest. But for united states, information technology's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that'south home, that'southward us. On information technology everyone y'all love, everyone yous know, everyone you ever heard of, every human existence who ever was, lived out their lives. The amass 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 male monarch and peasant, every young couple in beloved, every mother and begetter, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every decadent 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.
The Earth is a very small phase in a vast catholic arena. Retrieve of the rivers of blood spilled past all those generals and emperors so that, in celebrity and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one some other, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we take some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged past this betoken of pale calorie-free. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping catholic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. At that place is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could drift. Visit, aye. Settle, not still. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand up.
Information technology has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. At that place is perchance no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, information technology underscores our responsibility to deal more than kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the stake bluish dot, the merely habitation we've always known."
― Carl Sagan, Stake Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Hereafter in Space
"Ann Druyan suggests an experiment: Wait dorsum once again at the pale bluish dot of the preceding affiliate. Take a good long look at it. Stare at the dot for whatsoever length of time and so endeavour to convince yourself that God created the whole Universe for 1 of the 10 one thousand thousand or and so species of life that inhabit that speck of dust. Now take it a step farther: Imagine that everything was made just for a single shade of that species, or gender, or ethnic or religious subdivision. If this doesn't strike you as unlikely, option some other dot. Imagine it to be inhabited by a different form of intelligent life. They, too, cherish the notion of a God who has created everything for their benefit. How seriously do you lot take their merits?"
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
"A blade of grass is a commonplace on World; information technology would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars volition know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human beingness?"
― Carl Sagan, Stake Blueish Dot: A Vision of the Homo Future in Space
"For me, the about ironic token of [the get-go human moon landing] is the plaque signed past President Richard One thousand. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads: "We came in peace for all Flesh." As the Us was dropping 7 ½ megatons of conventional explosives on pocket-sized nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would impairment no one on a lifeless stone."
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
"The Cosmos extends, for all practical purposes, forever. After a cursory sedentary hiatus, we are resuming our ancient nomadic way of life. Our remote descendants, safely arrayed on many worlds throughout the Solar Organization and beyond, volition be unified by their common heritage, by their regard for their home planet, and by the knowledge that, whatsoever other life may be, the only humans in all the Universe come from Earth. They volition gaze up and strain to find the blue dot in their skies. They will dear it no less for its obscurity and fragility. They will marvel at how vulnerable the repository of all our potential one time was, how perilous our infancy, how humble our beginnings, how many rivers we had to cross before we found our way."
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
"If we proceed to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves. Our very existence in that distant time requires that we volition have changed our institutions and ourselves. How can I dare to gauge about humans in the far future? It is, I recall, only a affair of natural selection. If we get even slightly more tearing, shortsighted, ignorant, and selfish than we are at present, well-nigh certainly we will take no future."
― Carl Sagan, Stake Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Hereafter in Space
"Consider again that dot [Earth]. That's hither. 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 amass 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 male parent, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every decadent 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, Stake Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Futurity in Space
"The vast distances that divide the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient cocky-knowledge and judgment to take safely traveled from star to star."
― Carl Sagan, Stake Blue Dot: A Vision of the Homo Futurity in Space
"Once we lose our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe which dwarfs -- in time, in space, and in potential -- the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors."
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Infinite
"Or consider a story in the Jewish Talmud left out of the Book of Genesis. (It is in doubtful accord with the business relationship of the apple tree, the Tree of Knowledge, the Fall, and the expulsion from Eden.) In The Garden, God tells Eve and Adam that He has intentionally left the Universe unfinished. It is the responsibility of humans, over countless generations, to participate with God in a "glorious" experiment - the "completing of the Creation."
The burden of such a responsibleness is heavy, particularly on and then weak and imperfect a species as ours, 1 with so unhappy a history. Nothing remotely similar "completion" can exist attempted without vastly more cognition than we take today. But, perhaps, if our very existence is at stake, we volition notice ourselves able to rise to this supreme challenge."
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Man Future in Space
"It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and graphic symbol-building experience. In that location is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human being conceits than this afar prototype of our tiny world. To me, information technology underscores our responsibility to bargain more than kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the stake blueish dot, the just home we've ever known."
― Carl Sagan, Stake Bluish Dot: A Vision of the Human Futurity in Space
"We're Johnny-come-latelies. Nosotros live in the catholic boondocks. Nosotros emerged from microbes and muck. Apes are our cousins. Our thoughts and feelings are non fully nether our own control. At that place may be much smarter and very dissimilar beings elsewhere. And on top of all this, nosotros're making a mess of our planet and becoming a danger to ourselves."
― Carl Sagan, Pale Bluish Dot: A Vision of the Homo Future in Infinite
"If we are to send people, it must be for a very practiced reason - and with a realistic understanding that almost certainly nosotros volition lose lives. Astronauts and Cosmonauts take always understood this. Nevertheless, there has been and will be no shortage of volunteers."
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
"The Earth is the but globe known and then far to harbour life. In that location is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit? Yeah. Settle? Non yet. Similar it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand up. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and graphic symbol-building feel. ... To me, information technology 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: A Vision of the Human Hereafter in Infinite
"A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe equally revealed past modern scientific discipline might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths."
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Futurity in Space
"We tend to hear much more about the splendors returned than the ships that brought them or the shipwrights. It has always been that manner. Even those history books enamored of the voyages of Christopher Columbus do not tell much about the builders of the Nina the Pinta and the Santa Maria or near the principle of the caravel. These spacecraft their designers builders navigators and controllers are examples of what science and technology set free for well-defined peaceful purposes can accomplish. Those scientists and engineers should exist office models for an America seeking excellence and international competitiveness. They should be on our stamps."
― Carl Sagan, Stake Blueish Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
"What do we really want from religion? Palliatives? Therapy? Comfort? Practice we desire reassuring fables or an understanding of our bodily circumstances? Dismay that the Universe does non conform to our preferences seems childish. You lot might think that grown-ups would be ashamed to put such thoughts into print. The stylish way of doing this is not to blame the Universe -- which seems truly pointless -- but rather to blame the means by which we know the Universe, namely science."
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Man Future in Space
"Science cuts ii ways, of course; its products tin can be used for both skilful and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early on warnings near technological dangers also come from science."
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
"Planetary exploration satisfies our inclination for great enterprises and wanderings and quests that has been with u.s.a. since our days every bit hunters and gatherers on the E African savannahs a 1000000 years ago. By chance—it is possible, I say, to imagine many skeins of historical causality in which this would not accept transpired—in our historic period we are able to begin once again.
Exploring other worlds employs precisely the aforementioned qualities of daring, planning, cooperative enterprise, and valor that mark the finest in military tradition. Never listen the dark launch of an Apollo spacecraft bound for another earth. That makes the conclusion foregone. Witness mere F-14s taking off from side by side flight decks, gracefully canting left and right, afterburners flaming, and there's something that sweeps yous away—or at least it does me. And no amount of knowledge of the potential abuses of carrier job forces can impact the depth of that feeling. It only speaks to some other part of me. It doesn't want recriminations or politics. Information technology only wants to wing."
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Man Futurity in Space
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