“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... our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe – are challenged by that point of pale light.”

“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... our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe – are challenged by that point of pale light.”

— Carl Sagan