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A phrase popularized by Carl Sagan symbolizing Earth’s smallness and fragility within the vast cosmos.
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...
Source: Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
It seemed to me that another picture of the Earth, this one taken from a hundred thousand times farther away, might help in the continuing process of revealing to ourselves our true circumstance and condition. It had been well understood...
Source: Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
And yet there is no sign of humans in this picture, not our reworking of the Earth's surface, not our machines, not ourselves: We are too small and our statecraft is too feeble to be seen by a spacecraft between...
Source: Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
While almost everyone is taught that the Earth is a sphere with all of us somehow glued to it by gravity, the reality of our circumstance did not really begin to sink in until the famous frame-filling Apollo photograph of...
Source: Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
Cause It’s the World I Know
We accept the reality of the world with which we’re presented. It’s as simple as that.
