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Planets 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…
- I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It's…
- The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
- 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…
- We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet, are up for…
- 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…
- We are...capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth, to make an abundant and meaningful life for every inhabitant of…
- 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…
- We seem, these days, much more willing to recognize the perils before us than we were even a decade ago. The newly recognized dangers threaten…
- 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…
- There are in fact 100 billion galaxies, each of which contain something like a 100 billion stars. Think of how many stars, and planets, and…
- If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.
- Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth.
- The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn…
- 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?
- Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten…
- Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help…
- What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle…
- 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 significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's…
- We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor…
- National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain…
- In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.
- For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an…
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- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further… — 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
- We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and… — David Attenborough
- We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're… — Margaret Atwood
- The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us. — Margaret Atwood
- Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that. — Margaret Atwood
- Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets. — Margaret Atwood
- We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health… — Diane Ackerman
- We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the… — Dan Aykroyd
- Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. — Richard Bach