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Pale Blue Dot quotes

Carl Sagan

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“Where are the cartographers of human purpose? Where are the visions of hopeful futures, of technology as a tool for human betterment and not a gun on hair trigger pointed at our heads?” Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot
“If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.” Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot
“A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?” Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot
“The visions we offer our children shape the future.” Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot
“It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.” Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot
“Look again at 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.” Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot
“Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.” Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot

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