Incomprehensible distances
There are billions of galaxies with billions of stars each. On each, the possibility of life
Carl Sagan
American astronomer and popularizer of science.
All moments: Carl Sagan
- A journey into the cosmos — Carl Sagan
We are all connected by a single history. We are stardust contemplating the stars
- The harmony of worlds — Carl Sagan
Orbits are ellipses, not circles. The harmony ran deeper than Kepler imagined
- One voice in the cosmic fugue — Carl Sagan
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. We are points of the universe experiencing itself
- Science as a candle in the dark — Carl Sagan
Science is a way of thinking far more than a body of knowledge. It's a skeptical inquiry
- We are made of stardust — Carl Sagan
We are made of stars. We are literally born from stellar explosions
- The shores of the cosmic ocean — Carl Sagan
The cosmos is vastly larger, older, and more indifferent to us than we ever imagined
- A Pale Blue Dot — Carl Sagan
Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us.
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