Carl Sagin

Carl Sagin "Look again at that dot. Thats here thats home thats us. on it every one you love every one you know everyone you have ever heard of every human being who ever was lived out there lives the agriget of our joy and suffering thousands compantent religions, idioloigies, and economic doctrines, and every hunter and foreger, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization every king and peasant, every young couple in love every teacher of morals every mother and father every hopeful child ,every inventor and explorer, every corrupt politician every super star, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner, in the history of our species, lived there on a mote suspended in a sun beam. The earth is a very small stage i=n a vast cosmic arena. Our posturings, our imagined self importance, the dillusion that we have some privledged postition in the universe, our challenged by this poit of pale light our planet is a lonly speck in the great enveloping in the great cosmic dark and in our obscurity in all this vastness there is no hint that help will come from else where to save us from ourselves."