Bryan

“Perhaps the records will never be intercepted. Perhaps no one in five billion years will ever come upon them. Five billion years is a long time. In five billion years, all human beings will have become extinct or evolved into other beings, none of our artifacts will have survived on Earth, the continents will have become unrecognizably altered or destroyed, and the evolution of the Sun will have burned the Earth to a crisp or reduced it to a whirl of atoms.

Far from home, untouched by these remote events, the Voyagers, bearing the memories of a world that is no more, will fly on.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“The visions we offer our children shape the future. It matters what those visions are.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“In the littered field of discredited self-congratulatory chauvinisms, there is only one that seems to hold up, one sense in which we are special: Due to our own actions or inactions, and the misuse of our technology, we live at an extraordinary moment, for the Earth at least—the first time that a species has become able to wipe itself out.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“On the scale of worlds—to say nothing of stars or galaxies—humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space