POND SCUM - LIFE ON EARTH is just like a thin layer of scum (algae) on a summer pond... CARL SAGAN points out that the ENTIRE EARTH is nothing but a TINY DOT in the Cosmos! CELEBRATE LIFE, CELEBRATE YOUR uniqueness... without being an insufferable arrogant jerk about your position in this we planet we all call home....

even from WITHIN OUR OWN SOLAR SYSTEM,  PLANET EARTH appears as little more than a TINY DOT against the vast, unfathomable expanse of space.... yet MILLIONS of deluded humanoids will tell you that - via their "g-o-d" "creator of the universe" - that THEY are the ALPHA & OMEGA of the universe!    A little humility goes a long way to making life far  more wonderous....

EARTH is nothing but a tiny, PALE BLUE DOT in the  VAST, unfathomable EXPANSE of space -
 from WITHIN THIS SOLAR-SYSTEM much less within our galaxy... much less within the entire universe!

CARL SAGAN - EARTH is but a PALE BLUE DOT from far enough away...
HARDLY the CENTER OF UNIVERSE as ego-centric human brutes would have it....

carl sagan - we are put a blip in time & space, carried around on a (wonderful) pale blue dot, just one insignificant, tiny dust-spot in a great, vast universe

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