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Our favorite quote from Carl Sagan:
"We
succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you
see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard
of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of
all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and
economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator
and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in
love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every 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 cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood
spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in 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 the dot on scarcely distinguishable
inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings,
how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings,
our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position
in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. "Our
planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity
-- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere
to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a
humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, 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 and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale
blue dot, the only home we've ever known." Time
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