Carl Sagan Quotes

Compared To A Star, We Are Like Mayflies, Fleeting Ephemeral Creatures Who Live Out Their Whole Lives In The Course Of A Single Day. From The Point Of View Of A Mayfly, Human Beings Are Stolid, Boring, Almost Entirely Immovable, Offering Hardly A Hint That They Ever Do Anything. From The Point Of View Of A Star, A Human Being Is A Tiny Flash, One Of Billions Of Brief Lives Flickering Tenuously On The Surface Of A Strangely Cold, Anomalously Solid, Exotically Remote Sphere Of Silicate And Iron.

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