Carl Sagan said:
The universe is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be. Our contemplations stir us. There is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory of falling from a great height. We know we are approaching the grandest of mysteries.
The cosmos is within us. We are made of starstuff. We begin at last to wonder about our origins, starstuff contemplating the stars, organised collections of ten billion, billion, billion atoms contemplating the evolution of matter. Tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness, here on the planet Earth, and perhaps thoughout the cosmos. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed, not just to ourselves, but also to that cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we sprung.
Ladies and gentlemen, Carl Sagan...
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