Quotes by Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ev — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider a — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the c — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Unive — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Or consider a story in the Jewish Talmud left out of the Book of Genesis. (It is in doubtful accord with the account of — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilli — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
I do not think it irresponsible to portray even the direst futures if we are to avoid them we must understand that they — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Ann Druyan suggests an experiment: Look back again at the pale blue dot of the preceding chapter. Take a good long look — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value o — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
The Cosmos extends, for all practical purposes, forever. After a brief sedentary hiatus, we are resuming our ancient nom — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Once we lose our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe which dwarfs -- i — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Consider again that dot [Earth]. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyo — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victims of their very succ — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
On Titan the molecules that have been raining down like manna from heaven for the last 4 billion years might still be th — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from scie — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
We tend to hear much more about the splendors returned than the ships that brought them or the shipwrights. It has alway — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
It is now almost possible to assign color combinations, based on the colors of clouds and sky, to every planet in the So — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
The symbolism seemed so apt. The same technology that can propel apocalyptic weapons from continent to continent would e — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
n every culture, the sky and the religious impulse are intertwined. I lie back in an open field and the sky surrounds me — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The qua — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space