August 27, 2008

highly regarded quotation

[Writing of the famous photograph taken by the Voyager spacecraft, “The Pale Blue Dot”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pale_blue_dot ]

On the scale of worlds, humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal.

- Carl Sagan, The Pale Blue Dot.