A mote of dust suspended on a sunbeam
June 1, 2009
As you should know by now — as I’ve quoted him often enough — Carl Sagan is my hero. Here’s something beautiful, humbling and inspiring from a lecture he did in 1994, two years before his untimely death:
Hat tip to irReligion.
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Categories: science
astronomy, carl sagan, humanism, philosophy
I love that quote. Here’s another image that I really like showing the Earth & Jupiter:
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2003/05/22/
Yeah, that’s a nice image. Very cool considering it’s the first planetary conjunction captured on another planet!