Sunday, May 16, 2010

This Is Incredible To Contemplate

"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. 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."

4 comments:

Nomad said...

Who said this?

Wings1295 said...

Interesting, eh?

M. D. Jackson said...

Yes, yes yes, it's all well and good to feel awed into insignificance by how tiny our planet looks from space, but you miss the point.

Look at all that empty space around us. When are we going to start expanding into it?

I mean, seriously, Mankind. You have a whole universe to conquer and you just sit there gazing into your own navel.

Pat Tillett said...

We are but a mote in god's eye!

It staggers the mind to even think about the vastness of space...