Carl | Sagan Cosmos A Personal Voyage

He continued: “It is up to us. It’s been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.”

Maya closed her laptop. She was not ready to set sail for the stars. But she was ready to walk back into her life. Carl Sagan Cosmos A Personal Voyage

One night, Sagan showed the Library of Alexandria. He mourned its burning—the loss of a hundred thousand books, the accumulated knowledge of centuries. And he said, “We are a species that remembers. We are a species that yearns to know.” He continued: “It is up to us

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