Apollo Quote by Carl Sagan

“On the scale of worlds—to say nothing of stars or galaxies—humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump…

— Carl Sagan

“But human beings, too, are ephemeral things in the planetary scale. The number of things that they do not notice are literally astronomical.”

— N.K. Jemisin

“This was no fruit of such worlds and suns as shine on the telescopes and photographic plates of our observatories. This was no breath…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which…

— Carl Sagan

“The lessons of rocks, stars,and life are clear. To understand Earth, you must divorce yourself for the inconsequential temporal or spacial scale of human…

— Anonymous

“The Scientific Revolution had revealed that everyday experience is a narrow slice of a vast continuum of scales from the microscopic to the astronomical,…

— Steven Pinker

“Most days you do not look at the stars, and in the same vein it is all too easy to ignore the other life…

— Rob Dunn

“We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum star in the remotest…

— Carl Sagan

“I loved looking at the stars—they put in perspective how small I was compared to the Universe. Each of those hundreds of billions of…

— Michelle Madow

“I think it was the Earthrise that really kind of got everybody in the solar plexus … We were looking back at our planet, the place…

— Julian Barnes

“Earth may appear insignificant in the whole Universe, but it is the most beautiful and significant planet.”

— Sukant Ratnakar

“It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits…

— Carl Sagan