He had the unique ability to place these discoveries in the context of our lives. It’s one of my favourite speeches of all time.įor those who don’t know Carl Sagan, he is an astronomer who was a teacher of physics and astronomy to the general public. This speech makes our cosmic insignificance clear. This shirt is based on Carl Sagan’s speech on the finiteness and minuteness of our lives on Earth. 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." Stare at the dot for any length of time and then try to convince yourself that God created the. Ann Druyan suggests an experiment: Look back again at the pale blue dot of the preceding chapter. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. 6-7 (video below) This quote is pretty long, and it is truly better heard than read.
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