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From: Joshua Neubert <neubjr@MIT.EDU>
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Hey all, here is a little bit from one of those whom I consider to be the
great men of not just science, but of the world in all disciplines. Carl
Sagan knew a lot about the world and I think that this quote from him might
put people in a little different state of mind. Everyone gets so caught up
in hatred and wastfulness here on the Earth. Maybe this qoute will help
people realize that we really need to treat each other a little better, but
also that we need to treat the Earth and everyone/thing on it with a little
more respect. Whatever that means...... I just thought it's a really good
quote. It also kinda says that we should get off of this little pale blue
dot that we are stuck on (i.e. on to Mars or the Moon and beyond) which I
really like :) Anyways, I liked it.
nebujr.
>From Dr. Sagan when he contemplated a picture of Earth, taken from our
Voyager
>spacecraft in deep interplanetary space. He said:
>
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>
>"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."
>
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