Friday, February 12, 2010

Carl Sagan quote...

Thanks to my friend Jen B. for posting this on her facebook page. This might be my new favorite quote (from Carl Sagan). In light of my recent subject matter (space, specifically the Sun and the Stars), this is particularly poignant for me.

Look again at 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.

You can hear Carl Sagan say it here:

http://youtu.be/nl5dlbCh8lY

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