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Earth Quotes by Carl Sagan
- We can make a similar examination, but with greater uncertainty, of the extraterrestrial hypothesis that holds that a wide range of UFOs viewed on the…
- The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
- The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.
- We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged.
- Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group Groups of people from divergent ethnic and cultural…
- Some 5 billion years from now, there will be a last perfect day on Earth... then the sun will begin to die, life will be…
- Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension…
- There is every reason to think that in the coming years Mars and its mysteries will become increasingly familiar to the inhabitants of the Planet…
- These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victims of their very success, the…
- When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different…
- The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have…
- We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the legacy of 15…
- A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We…
- The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
- We are rare and precious because we are alive, because we can think as well as we can. We are privileged to influence and perhaps…
- Centuries hence, when current social and political problems may seem as remote as the problems of the Thirty Years' War are to us, our age…
- We have heard the rationales offered by the nuclear superpowers. We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the human species? Who…
- The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our…
- If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.
- After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be…
- Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth.
- The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. Information distilled over…
- What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human understanding we are…
- Who will speak for Planet Earth?
- If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood
- We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
- What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
- Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. — Michele Bachmann