on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam

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Consider again 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.

May 11, 1996 Carl Sagan

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  1. Posted 13/04/2010 at 16:20 | Permalink

    Ciertamente inspirador, no somos más que producto de la casualidad aunque algunos se obstinen en defender que somos producto de la causalidad.

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