On Human Conceit
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
Carl Sagan, astronomer and science writer:
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 [...]