“Look again at 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.”
Carl Sagan