Have an account?

Search This Blog

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Carl Sagan "We Speak for Earth"

Source: www.youtube.com
'And we, we who embody the local eyes, and ears, and thoughts, and feelings of the cosmos -- we've begun at last to wonder about our origins. Star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of 10 billion billion billion atoms contemplating the evolution of matter -- tracing that long path ...
Carl Sagan 'We Speak for Earth'
It
has the sound of epic myth.It is simply the description of the
evolution of the cosmos as revealed by science in our time.' And
we've,we embodied the local eyes and ears and thoughts of the cosmos.we've
begun at last to wonder about our origins. Star stuff contemplating the
stars, organized collections of 10 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,
throughout the cosmos.'Our loyalties are to the species and the 'planet'
WE PEAK FOR EARTH!...Our obligation to survive and flourish is odd not
just to ourselves,but also to that 'cosmos ancient and vast from which
we spring' -- Carl Sagan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXQ_7QUyb20
"

0 comments:

Post a Comment

Black and Missing but Not Forgotten