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Carl Sagan1934–1996

Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs — in time, in space, and in potential — the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors.

Carl Sagan on science

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994), p. 53

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