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"Books are like seeds, they can lie dormant for centuries but they may also produce flowers in the most unpromising soil."
- Carl Sagan
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” - Carl Sagan
Our Galaxy’s Magnetic Field Fingerprint https://www.sofia.usra.edu/multimedia/image-galleries/galactic-center
"The sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled...the open road still often calls like a nearly forgotten song of childhood." - Carl Sagan
"Wanders" by VFX artist Erik Wernquist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH3c1QZzRK4
Pale Blue Dot
From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again 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.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. 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 will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
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 species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
- Carl Sagan
photographed from Voyager 1 six billion kilometers out (beyond Pluto).
THE PALE BLUE DOT OF EARTH This image of Earth is one of 60 frames taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft on February 14, 1990 from a distance of more than 6 billion kilometers (4 billion miles) and about 32 degrees above the ecliptic plane. In the image the Earth is a mere point of light, a crescent only 0.12 pixel in size. Our planet was caught in the center of one of the scattered light rays resulting from taking the image so close to the Sun. This image is part of Voyager 1's final photographic assignment which captured family portraits of the Sun and planets. 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.The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. 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 will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.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 species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
Carl Sagan - Solğun Mavi nöqtə.
Bu nöqtəyə bir də baxın,ora evimizdir.O bizik.Sevdiyimiz və tanıdığımız,adını eşitdiyimiz,yaşayan və ölmüş hərkəs ordadır.Bütün sevincimizin və kədərimizin cəmi,minlərcə bir-birini yalanlayan din,ideologiya və iqtisadi doktrin,insanlıq tarixi boyunca yaşayan hər ovçu və toplayıcı,hər qəhrəman və qorxaq,hər mədəniyyət qurucusu və dağıdıcısı ,hər kral və əkinci,hər aşiq çütlük,hər ana və ata,ümid dolu uşaq,ixtiraçı,kəşfiyyatçı ,əxlaq müəllimi,rüşvətxor siyasətçi,hər superstar,hər ulu öndər,hər müqəddəs və günahkar onun üzərində,bir günəş şüasının üzərində asılı olan o toz zərrəsindədir. Kainatın sonsuzluğu qarşısında dünya çox kiçik bir səhnədir.Bütün o general və imperatorlar tərəfindən axıdılan qan göllərini düşünün,qazandıqları zəfərlərlə bir toz dənəsinin bir anlıq ağası oldular.O zərrənin bir küncündə oturanların başqa bir küncündən gələn və özlərinə bənzəyən başqaları tərəfindən uğradıqları bitməz,tükənməz əziyyətləri düşünün,birbirlərini öldürmək üçün nə qədər də həvəsli idilər,bir birlərindən necə də nifrət edirdilər. Təkəbbürümüz,özümüzə verdiyimiz önəm,kainatda xüsusi yerimiz olduğu haqda olan düşüncəmiz,hamısı bu solğun ışıq nöqtəsi tərəfindən yox edilir.Planetimiz kainatın qaranlığında yalnız bir toz zərrəsidir.Bu möhtəşəm boşluq içində bizi bizdən xilas edəcək heçkim yoxdur. Dünya,üzərində həyat olduğunu bildiyimiz tək planetdir.Ən azından yaxın gələcəkdə gedəbiləcəyimiz başqa yer yoxdur.Ziyarət edəbilərik,amma hələki orda həyat qura bilmərik.Bəyənsəniz də bəyənməsəniz də hələki dünya sığınabiləcəyimiz tək yerdir. Astronomiyanın insanı daha təvazökar olmağa məcbur edən və şəxsiyyət qazandıran bir təcrübə olduğu deyilir.Bəlkə də insanın təkəbbürünün nə qədər mənasız olduğunu bundan daha yaxşı göstərən bir şəkil yoxdur.Məncə birbirimizə daha yaxşı davranma öhdəliyimizi vurğulayır və bu mavi nöqtəyə,evimizə.
“Devemos renunciar ao nosso ceticismo apenas em face de evidências sólidas. A ciência exige uma tolerância à ambiguidade. Onde somos ignorantes, recusamos ceder à crença. Qualquer que seja o aborrecimento que a incerteza gera, serve a um propósito maior: nos leva a acumular dados melhores. Essa atitude é a diferença entre ciência e tantas outras coisas. A ciência oferece pouco em termos de emoções baratas. Os padrões de evidência são rigorosos. Mas, quando seguidos, permitem que enxerguemos longe, iluminando até uma grande escuridão. ” _ Carl Sagan, Pálido Ponto Azul, 1994.
“We must surrender our skepticism only in the face of rock-solid evidence. Science demands a tolerance for ambiguity. Where we are ignorant, we withhold belief. Whatever annoyance the uncertainty engenders serves a higher purpose: It drives us to accumulate better data. This attitude is the difference between science and so much else. Science offers little in the way of cheap thrills. The standards of evidence are strict. But when followed they allow us to see far, illuminating even a great darkness.”
—Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
Coming back from school and watching carl sagan's cosmos is how i heal 🫶🏻
Christmas tree in space 👀