SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2011
PALE BUE DOT...
As I was flying on Sunday to Paris, I remembered Jacques Prévert (1900-1977) and his poems. One of them that I especially like, with the title Pater Noster (click to enlarge):
Somehow, it reminded me of one of the best-known quotes by Carl Sagan (1934-1996), who was himself a poet in addition to being a scientist-astronomer-writer...
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. "
(From Pale Blue Dot-A Vision Of the Human Future in Space)
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