It is a good quotation, explaining how tiny and insignificant the Earth is in comparison to just our solar system, let alone the universe, and how anyone who attaches any importance for us on the grand scale of things is just fooling themselves.
There is no "grand plan" for the inhabitants of that "mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
-- Princess
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
I'm adding this to my list of favorite quotes. It's about Carl Sagan's speech about a pale blue dot.
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