Carl Sagan Quotes:
Ocupation: Astronomer
Life: November 9, 1934 - December 20, 1996
Birthday: November 9
Death: December 20
I’m struck again by the irony that spaceflight-conceived in the cauldron of nationalist rivalries and hatreds-brings with it a stunning transnational vision. You spend even a little time contemplating the Earth from orbit and the most deeply engrained nationalisms begin to erode. They seem the squabbles of mites on a plum.
source: Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.199, Ballantine Books
topic: Squabbles, Spaceflight, Stunning, Cauldrons
