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“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

“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


I don’t usually upload videos but this is amazing.



The Pioneer Plaque attached to Pioneer 10.

The Pioneer Plaque attached to Pioneer 10.





Humans are very good at dreaming, although you’d never know it from your television.
Carl Sagan

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She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.
Carl Sagan

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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it’s forever.
Carl Sagan

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