Carlsagan
Many people feel small, cause they're small and the universe is big. But i feel big. Because, my atoms, came from those stars. From this distant vantage point, the earth might not seem of any...
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From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home....
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So, in July of this year [2013], Caroline Porko, a friend and colleague of mine, head of the imaging team at Saturn, took this image. The dot of light in the bottom righthand quadrant is Earth. Earth....
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The world we are living in is unifying itself at a prodigious rate. And this is not the will of institutions. Andy made reference to what a con this drug war is, because it's making so much...
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I can remember another early visual experience with cannabis, in which I viewed a candle flame and discovered in the heart of the flame, standing with magnificent indifference, the black-hatted and...
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In the seventeenth century there was still some hope that, even if the Earth was not the center of the Universe, it might be the only "world." After millennia of philosophical...
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The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena think of the rivers of blood Spill by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a...
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The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us there is a tingling in the spine a catch in the voice, a faint sensation as if a distant memory...
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Black holes are the natural enemies of all spacefaring races. With their bottomless capacity to consume all light and matter, it's just a few septillion years before all things in the Universe...
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Carl Sagan Who Speaks for Earth? Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed, not just to ourselves, but also to that Cosmos,...
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