Thursday, October 1, 2009

Some words from an old friend...

“I believe our future depends, powerfully, on how well we understand this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky. We’re about to begin a journey through the Cosmos …it’s a story about us … how the Cosmos has shaped our evolution and our culture and what our fate may be.”

“We wish to pursue the truth no matter where it leads; but to find the truth we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact. The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths, of exquisite interrelationships, of the awesome machinery of nature.”

“Some part of our being knows this is where we came from [the stars], we long to return. And we can because the Cosmos is also within us; we are made of 'star stuff' - we are a way for the Cosmos to know itself.”

-Carl Sagan.