We dont learn much about space in school.Most kids arent really intrested in it.but i think space is really cool.even though i would like to be an astronaut my dream job is to be an pilot.But i love space.
I grew up in poverty in South Korea during the 70s. I must have been about 10 or 11 years old when I watched Carl Sagan's Cosmos on our tiny TV and it made a huge impression on me. I remember saving money to buy the book, translated into Korean, which I still own. I ended up migrating to Australia and eventually completed a PhD in theoretical physics. Thank you, Carl, for inspiring a young person so far away. It seems we were also connected to each other on this tiny blue dot.
That’s very inspiring, I really always love seeing how Carl Sagan touches people and that we can all relate to the appreciation we have for the profound wisdoms that he shared…he had some of the most beautiful words.
am I the only one who actually gets moved to tears by this?? The pale blue dot narration has to have some of the most profound words uttered in the entire 20th century. Makes me proud to be a scientist, and to know that we all benefit from this late, great man.
***** no actually, I am a biologist, and we generally want to look after the planet and all the species on it including humanity. Also you do realise that yes, whilst science has created weapons of mass destruction it has also extended our life span, increased our food yields, given us technology that would have been unthinkable 50 years ago, and allowed women who are infertile to be (potentially) have kids Science is like a tool like any other. You can use a hammer (for example) to kill someone, but you can also use said hammer to help build a house for someone which will give them shelter. There is no need to be so cynical.
+Islamic Ba'athism brother, you don't even know this people, how can you make such assumptions.? This video celebrates life, let's not dishonor that, let's work towards understanding not segregation by simply refraining from causing friction with innocent strangers on the Internet. My best wishes to you both.
@@methsilidesilva2320 once evil always evil. Either they really solid evil that cannot turned into good or... they're shy and shame to embrace the truth and soo they keep to stay in the wrong path until the end and force themselves to believe that all they did and does are good. Look at Donald Trump and all Israeli leaders there for example.
Why one or the other? Do all: - Played before every UN meeting - Printed on a plaque to be sent to *every* leader (not just the ones of "super"powers) - Adding: To be taught the world over, in every single school (heck, they could each have a plaque, too) Actually, if you can't comprehend it then you are denied permission to be a political leader... ^^ Anyone vandalizing aa plaque should be imprisoned for a year, in a cell...with a copy of the plaque to stare at. :)
"Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot." I froze after he completed that sentence.
+cottoncandymunch I'm struggling with a job that barely pays above minimum wage. This brings some comfort and separately an ungodly discomfort. Mainly because the concept presented can't be presented in normal life practically. I'm an atheist full of hope, and yet I'm observed as a person with a disposition. Such is life, I suppose. However fleeting and displeasing.
Instead of national anthems, we need this speech to be compulsory recital at schools, colleges and govt offices and at all important proceedings. It should be acceptable to all religions and cultures as it has no insults to any one.
Because we live in a system that alienates us and pits us against each other. Instead of exploring the stars we are made to squabble over insignificant things that we've convinced ourselves are important
Those who, so confidently, say that no one can have a profound spiritual experience without God or some other supersticious guru never had the chance to reflect upon reality and how awesome it is.
This video is the first bookmark on the bookmark bar of every browser on every computer I own. When I'm feeling down, it can cheer me up. When I'm feeling full of myself, it puts me in my place. You live on, Carl.
I think this should be shown to every child in every school in every country in the world. Perhaps that way, we might learn to be kinder to one another...
My old professor from university introduced our class to the pale blue dot 8 years ago. He ended one of his seminars with this video and afterwards he explained that he kept a framed picture of the pale blue dot in his office. He told us that whenever he felt stressed, anxious or down he would take a minute to look at his picture of the pale blue dot. The pale blue dot was his way of representing perspective on life, on any situation and making sense of your situation. 8 years on, although I don't have a framed image of the pale blue dot, I do have this video and I often find myself coming back to it when I need to. Not only does is help bring some peace to me, but also brings back good memories of those times. Thank you Professor, RIP.
Really? Because to me all it says is how utterly meaningless your existence truly is. And the more you understand this universe the more, and more meaningless it becomes.
1:21 It's the 5th of August 2024, and at least 2 wars are ongoing right now, I would like to say to the parties involved, "Think of the rivers of blood, spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters, of a fraction... of a dot." Carl Sagan
This speech is so humbling. It puts us in our place. Perhaps nothing encapsulates it better than the line “The delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this pale light”. Hands down, one of the most meaningful speeches !
Listening to these words from a diminutive part of the Pale Blue Dot. Long after they were said but are so beautiful and meaningful that I shall remember this till the end.
Carl was a loser. Carl Sagan "The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be." Carl Sagan, "I can’t imagine anyone denying the existence of the laws of nature, but I don’t know of any compelling evidence for the old man in the sky." More from the clueless Carl, --It’s perfectly possible that the universe is infinitely old and therefore uncaused. In fact, there are detailed cosmological models that hold such a view and that are consistent with everything we know. To my mind, it seems not fully satisfactory to say that there was a first cause. That seems to postpone dealing with the problem rather than solving it. If we say “God” made the universe, then surely the next question is, “Who made God?” If we say “God” was always here, why not say the universe was always here? If we say that the question “Where did God come from?” is too tough for us poor mortals to understand, then why not say that the question of, “Where did the universe come from?” is too tough for us mortals? In what way, exactly, does the God hypothesis advance our knowledge of cosmology? What predictions does it make on which the hypothesis will stand or fall?"-- from: www.uscatholic.org/articles/202001/god-and-carl-sagan-cosmos-big-enough-both-them-31939 Read the article. Have a laugh for what a hypocritical, lying, mocking, disgusting, person he was. Carl cannot get around these laws and what they lead to... Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it. ....yet he thinks creation happened naturally, "What predictions does it make on which the hypothesis will stand or fall?" He ignores the CLEAR science that creation had to happen by God supernaturally! Still, he ignores the laws... "I don’t know of any compelling evidence for the old man in the sky." Notice his mocking God, "man in the sky" as if that makes him look smart as he completely ignores the evidence. His question, "Who made God?" is as pathetic as he is. So in his way of useless thinking, if a supernatural creator created the natural realm, then that supernatural creator who created the natural realm with its natural laws has then become also bound by those natural laws the supernatural creator created. So explain why a supernatural creator is also bound by the laws the supernatural creator created. Or, show how smart you are and just give your science for creation happening naturally, and don't forget to give your science how the natural laws were created, too. If he wanted to act smart, it may be a good idea to actually show you are. Sagan lived his empty life clueless and has clueless followers.
I'm a simple person. Not much moves me. I first saw this video many years ago. It moved me like nothing before or after. Since seeing this video years ago, I've lost both parents, multiple cousins, and aunts and uncles. But, when I think of this video, it puts me at peace during these trying times. This is beautifully narrated and whenever I need to level set myself, I always come back to the pale blue dot and appreciate life more.
different from the other very popular comments on how "this should be seen by every head-of-state everyday" (which i certainly dont disagree with), this one i could see happen... not necessarily soon but we need it to be soon
Ok, at least not every single gathering of the UN; But I do believe that this is one the most beautiful, inspiring and just a great reminder that nothing matters with just us humans. What matters is not what is around us, but rather what is right next to us in this very moment, not the other beings on other planets, with the same basic ideologies as us, to be the greatest and only species that comes out on top. We are all a figment of the cosmic entity that is the universe, and we have no effect, no say, no way of swaying what happens to all the other usses and wes and yous and mes that live on the other pale blue, or green, or other colored dots that sit out in the darkness and the light. We are all insignificant in the big picture, but what truly matters is what is happening right now, with you, with your friends, your family. What matters is what you do on your pale dot, in the time that you have to live on it.
Whenever I am in doubt. Whenever I feel like the world makes no sense to me. Whenever I feel disconnected and sad. I watch this video and it gives me a new sense of purpose and courage. To get out there and live life in the moment and appreciate what I have. To keep striving for my best. The great Carl Sagan. What a teacher.
@Railqun finally i find someone who senses like me! Everybody expresses happiness & relief from this cosmic realization! I don't know how they sense that!!! For me it's the total reverse! I sense that life is completely tiny & worthless, that i'm like a "nobody"! I sense like i want to kill myself because my life is so small, & death is inevitable anyway, & eternity is void! Also, another bad thing about this sense is being in panic & fear that i don't get everything in this life, because it's my only chance in eternity! If i don't have all the money, travel to all places, have sex with someone i love who doesn't love me - get it all perfect, then this makes me feel rage & depression because i'm losing my one single eternal chance to do it!!!
same when i lose all compassion towards my fellow man, when i lose sight of our humanity and decency i watch this to remember that harboring hate in ones heart is the same as hell on earth, for what a fraction of a second that is life here. that’s just the ultimate waste. when we could make it even more special for one another
I come back to this video when I'm overwhelmed with my life. I spend so much of my life wishing I wasn't alive, struggling to find the energy to crawl onto the next day. Somehow, remembering how tiny the whole world is, how to anyone else in the universe we could scarcely be noticed... it resets me I'm glad I have the chance to share this dot with you all. Many of us wouldn't like each other if we met... but we're all one another have got. Peace be to you all 💖
@LAGreg123 thank you, Greg. My life's gotten unimaginably better since I left this comment, and I put it down in large part to how humbled I've become by this sort of thing May you find peace and strength in your own struggles too
Why is this message not resonated in every school and educational institutions is beyond baffling. Such simple words with so much weight, the great Carl Sagan, we miss you dearly.
Because it doesn’t make sense. I’m not undermining the beauty of Sagan’s words, especially the first bit. We truly are but a speck of dust in a near infinite cosmic expanse. But why would that lead one to think that we should all be nice to each other? Couldn’t you just as easily say that murder and rape don’t matter in the grand scheme of things? We’re just microscopic critters on a speck of dust, our suffering means nothing
@@lebecccomputer287 it's more about making sure that the human race can survive and live on. and the only way that is at all possible is to make sure we take care, of the only place in the 93 billion lights years of observed space that we know currently has life. And the way we are currently going. we're doing a piss poor job of it.
I try not to get too conspiratorial when it comes to such profound questions... But I do wonder if there's some kind of concerted effort to keep us all dumbed down, lazy and apathetic... With a continuous drive to simply consume everything in sight, to keep greed and the capitalistic engine going... Remember... As shitty, unfair and corrupt as our current system is, many people wouldn't have it any other way... They simply could not exist in a liberal, progressive and space faring civilization inspired by people like Carl Sagan! Without unsavoury qualities like Greed, Hate, Fear and Racism... These sad souls wouldn't know what to do with themselves! They feed on suffering! The more... The merrier...
The sooner the better the human beast is no longer to exist, human animals are no more then a x between an alian and some other unknown a sport animal and only when the evil beast is no more will it be RIGHT.
I'm not an emotional man, I find it hard to express my feelings, to even go out of my way to conceal them at all times - but this video brings those feelings out of me without my being able to resist.
@@eledelweis275i know it's late ,but many many happy returns of day , wishing you a happy birthday.. Life can be hard sometimes but keep fighting through it , there's always light at the end of tunnel , sending you virtual hugs
Every time I'm at loss of confidence or have any fear, I come back to this! This. This is "the reality" of our existence. It fells me with immense confidence and fortitude!
I'm gonna cry, this is beautiful. This sums it up. We should all watch this. This is beautiful. Every human, should they be able to comprehend it, should watch this.
I first watched COSMOS when I was in college in the late 1970s. I have shared this jewel of wisdom with all my kids and find the message is as meaningful now as then. When life gets too crazy I find solace in this somehow. Thank you, Dr Sagan
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“Astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience” Carl. ❤
This is how we all look like from some distance. No human is superior to other human being. Our good deeds, kindness, compassion and genuine/ intrinsic empathy makes us significant in our shared humanity during our temporary stay in this life.
I shed tears every time I hear "The Pale Blue Dot". I have listened to "The Pale Blue Dot" hundreds of times and I always get weepy as it is just as powerful now as it was the first time I heard it two decades ago!
This man has opened my mind to question, everything, to understand everything "To love is to understand as to understand is to love:" It took me a very long time to think of this, vague and simple, yet very powerful to me. To understand the things around you takes a sense of love, vulnerability, adaption and patience. Once you start to understand, the more you fall in love with the information and everything surrounding it. Understand yourself, love yourself.
Impossible to express my love for Sagan, the windows to human and universal understanding that this man opened. One can only hope humans have more people like him. ❤️
It's 2:02 am 4th October 2022, Uzbekistan, Nukus. I'm preparing for my ielts exam and watching this video. Goosebumps are all over my body ane eyes are getting teary. Thanks a lot to the author of this post!!!
I used to watch this video everyday. Somehow lost track of it several years ago and now just found it again, and it’s what I needed to hear at the right time
World would be much more peaceful, if it follows the words of Sagan , "Momentary Masters" and "Everything we know". It is impeccable mixture of science/hope and spirituality/selflessness. Kudos Carl Sagan.... I am sure 1000 years from now, your words will prove out to be more valuable than any.
To me this is both the best thing ever written and the best thing ever spoken. I find it a shame that more of our species can't live up to these wonderful words. Respect to Carl and happy Carl Sagan day a day early.
Spectacular speech, every time I watch it helps put the world and its problems back into perspective. Carl Sagan, you symbolise the best of humanity. rest in peace.
@@seanh4841 we process slowly and with big backward jumps, there's no doubt about that, but this kind of ideas finally made it to the mainstream culture in the last 20 years. It takes time but maybe we'll be at a place where we have a global consciousness before we delete ourselves from existence
Carl Sagan was the voice of the Silent but beautiful Cosmos. If there is a way to be like him, it was found in the simplest things in life. That is *to know*. The Earth might be the very centre for our lives but it is not the centre of anything else. And yet, our stage, home world is a delicate beauty to be. Suspended in a sun beam.
Carl Sagan ... perhaps one of the most amazing minds that has ever lived on this Dot. Every single word he says in this video is the most truth that exists in reality. It ought to be a staple in every child's grade school education! Because it's true! It is the reality! It is the reality in which we live, and everybody should know about it!
Carl Sagan, your teachings your inspiration and even in this case your poetry, changed my life like few other ones since I was a child, miss your inspiration so much. Love & respect.
This will forever be the video which I come to from the deepest emotion of my heart. My brother introduced me to this speech and we share it every now and then! ❤ Thankful for ‘the pale blue dot’
Some of the most profound and, in many ways hopeful words ever said. Especially in the grand context in which they were spoken. Cherish the pale blue dot.
Transcript: From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
This is the best lesson I've ever learned. I remember when I was little, maybe six, my dad showed me this video. I didn't pay attention at first, because I didn't want to think about how insignificant I really was. I just wanted to play my video games. But near the middle I started listening to what he was saying, and paying attention. If i didn't listen to this speech, I would be a different person. Today I needed a lesson. I was rude to my family and took things for granted. So i watched this video again. When you take something for granted, or act to someone you know, watch this video, and think about how truly insignificant you are.
@@shreyakumari7093 use a microscope and see some organisms under it, you start wondering how can all of this be just coincidence, how all this was created But when you look at planets from farrrr away, you start questioning, where the hell is the creator? If there is a creator where is he Anyway, I have started beliving in non duality so I do have an answer for my questions
What a shame he’s gone, his words were so beautiful, how he was able to explain the entirety of human history from a single picture from the furthest spacecraft in all of human history
they're aliens here to conquer Earth. Carl Sagan's words are true, but an alien's point of view would be just as true. If they are advanced they might see Earth as a spinning ball of dirt with pathetic creatures on it that haven't even settled their conflicts yet and left their world
I come from Ai3gi5 which is 1633 light years away from your home and I didnt like this video because it wasnt about my dark rusty green dot (my home planet)
I could not agree with you more. If only we had more scientists and science popularizes who had the same gift. Brian Green, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Leonard Susskind, and others - have written marvellous books about the mysteries and grandeur of the universe for general audiences, but they simply do not have Sagan's gravitas and eloquence.
Voyager makes me feel like crying and I haven't even read his background yet. Just his skill names, NP, and his animations. Feel like he might even become a key player against the Alien God since he embodies Humanity's greatest achievement.
Instead of pledging allegiance to the flag, children across the globe should get to watch this video at the beginning of each school day! The generation that adheres to these values will be the first to truly experience world peace.
That don't win pissing contests with other world capitals. Blind, dumb tribal allegiance does. Well, at least that's the (unproven) theory. "What people believe prevails over the truth." - Sophocles, "The Sons of Aleus" "How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth." - Sophocles, "Oedipus Rex" "True words are not beautiful, beautiful words are not true." - Dao De Jing, chapter 81
dolphinsatsunset1 You're demanding too much of human nature. We're not gonna have world peace, as long as the fertile females' only criteria for choice of mate is that he has to dominate the other males. Then you can have only war.
This speech should be taught in every school in the world.
This should played every single morning, in every single school, until every child memorizes it. The world might be fixed in one generation.
Goddamn yes! That's what I think whenever I visit this speech 😭❤️
We dont learn much about space in school.Most kids arent really intrested in it.but i think space is really cool.even though i would like to be an astronaut my dream job is to be an pilot.But i love space.
My 8th grade science teacher showed this to us
@@VierArgonaut 🤘🤘
I grew up in poverty in South Korea during the 70s. I must have been about 10 or 11 years old when I watched Carl Sagan's Cosmos on our tiny TV and it made a huge impression on me. I remember saving money to buy the book, translated into Korean, which I still own. I ended up migrating to Australia and eventually completed a PhD in theoretical physics. Thank you, Carl, for inspiring a young person so far away. It seems we were also connected to each other on this tiny blue dot.
That’s very inspiring, I really always love seeing how Carl Sagan touches people and that we can all relate to the appreciation we have for the profound wisdoms that he shared…he had some of the most beautiful words.
your comment gave me goosebumps bruhh,
Yours is a beautiful story. Carl Sagan has inspired so many of us.
Thank you so much for sharing your life story
Amazing ❤
am I the only one who actually gets moved to tears by this??
The pale blue dot narration has to have some of the most profound words uttered in the entire 20th century. Makes me proud to be a scientist, and to know that we all benefit from this late, great man.
It put me in tears as well!
***** no actually, I am a biologist, and we generally want to look after the planet and all the species on it including humanity. Also you do realise that yes, whilst science has created weapons of mass destruction it has also extended our life span, increased our food yields, given us technology that would have been unthinkable 50 years ago, and allowed women who are infertile to be (potentially) have kids Science is like a tool like any other. You can use a hammer (for example) to kill someone, but you can also use said hammer to help build a house for someone which will give them shelter.
There is no need to be so cynical.
+Islamic Ba'athism brother, you don't even know this people, how can you make such assumptions.? This video celebrates life, let's not dishonor that, let's work towards understanding not segregation by simply refraining from causing friction with innocent strangers on the Internet. My best wishes to you both.
absintobias could not agree more!
You're not the only one
"how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds."
This speech should be played before each UN yearly meeting
No. Send this to the leaders of the super powers who are trying to destroy this planet.
@@methsilidesilva2320 once evil always evil. Either they really solid evil that cannot turned into good or... they're shy and shame to embrace the truth and soo they keep to stay in the wrong path until the end and force themselves to believe that all they did and does are good. Look at Donald Trump and all Israeli leaders there for example.
I don’t think anyone there would comprehend it.
Why one or the other? Do all:
- Played before every UN meeting
- Printed on a plaque to be sent to *every* leader (not just the ones of "super"powers)
- Adding: To be taught the world over, in every single school (heck, they could each have a plaque, too)
Actually, if you can't comprehend it then you are denied permission to be a political leader... ^^
Anyone vandalizing aa plaque should be imprisoned for a year, in a cell...with a copy of the plaque to stare at. :)
@@ZeHoSmusician So...
We should put people in a cage if they don't agree with us?
Seems to miss the point...
Perhaps the most important and significant speech made by any human being, and what a human being Carl was. I am in tears watching this...!
Yeah.... :-)
Arun Phillips Yes M8..... I’ll have a slice of that.. RIP Carl Sagan
Same here! Just wow
Yes ... I wish he was alive.
@@reemrazzaq9799 "to live in the hearts we leave behind is to never die"
"Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot."
I froze after he completed that sentence.
Me too😭😭
Did you actually freeze?
@@jimbothekid3034 emmotionally
same
same bro
Exactly 33 years ago today this iconic image was captured by camera on Voyager 1 on 14/02/1990. God bless Carl Sagan
this is so beautiful it hurts.. and we tend to forget it all the time, all the time, all the time.
+cottoncandymunch I'm struggling with a job that barely pays above minimum wage. This brings some comfort and separately an ungodly discomfort. Mainly because the concept presented can't be presented in normal life practically. I'm an atheist full of hope, and yet I'm observed as a person with a disposition. Such is life, I suppose. However fleeting and displeasing.
+cottoncandymunch this should the world prayer a saying every child has to recite at school.. that way we will never forget
Instead of national anthems, we need this speech to be compulsory recital at schools, colleges and govt offices and at all important proceedings. It should be acceptable to all religions and cultures as it has no insults to any one.
I wish I could forget it sometimes.
I’m here to remind you 3 years later that nothing matters. No one matters.
Never been able to listen to this without tears.
How can we be so clever, and yet so stupid?
It's the human condition,
It's a perfect illustration of the difference between intelligence and wisdom.
Because we live in a system that alienates us and pits us against each other. Instead of exploring the stars we are made to squabble over insignificant things that we've convinced ourselves are important
@@Fluxquark So true. Great comment 👍🏼
@@Fluxquark THIS THIS THIS THIS
Hello my fellow earthlings, love you all.
roteir :)
+roteir Love you to my fellow!
love you too bud !
+roteir Love you too. *hugs*
Love you too ❤️
Carl Sagan - 'The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.'
Happy Birthday Carl Sagan. The pale blue dot misses you.
Perfect line for his rememberance....
It's a simple but filled of emotions given to the reader sentence. We all miss him
And happy birthday once more
Gone but never forgotten.
It does indeed...
This is the closest to a spiritual awakening I have ever felt.
Same 🌎👍🏼
Indeed. Realisation of truth demands its experience.
Those who, so confidently, say that no one can have a profound spiritual experience without God or some other supersticious guru never had the chance to reflect upon reality and how awesome it is.
Religions feed on ignorance, unfortunately.
Try Richard Dawkins We are going to die!
This video is the first bookmark on the bookmark bar of every browser on every computer I own.
When I'm feeling down, it can cheer me up.
When I'm feeling full of myself, it puts me in my place.
You live on, Carl.
I think this should be shown to every child in every school in every country in the world. Perhaps that way, we might learn to be kinder to one another...
But they're already kinder to one another in Germany :c
va1bhav _d I saw what you did there !
you can't be kind to be people in a competitive society, "Go next door, they sell a better television set, good sir."
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This speech always moves me tears. It makes me thankful for the people in my life, and the life I can live. I am thankful for my very existence.
My old professor from university introduced our class to the pale blue dot 8 years ago.
He ended one of his seminars with this video and afterwards he explained that he kept a framed picture of the pale blue dot in his office.
He told us that whenever he felt stressed, anxious or down he would take a minute to look at his picture of the pale blue dot.
The pale blue dot was his way of representing perspective on life, on any situation and making sense of your situation.
8 years on, although I don't have a framed image of the pale blue dot, I do have this video and I often find myself coming back to it when I need to. Not only does is help bring some peace to me, but also brings back good memories of those times.
Thank you Professor, RIP.
Thanks for sharing this story! Your professor did teaching right!
Wow 😢
Now that's the kind of professor that we all wish for! Very inspiring 👍
it helps with death anxiety too
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Humanity was lucky to have Carl Sagan. I listen to this when I'm depressed :)
me too
Same
Same
Same bro...
No speech has ever given me more hope for mankind
Cosmic Data exactly
Watch this before or after Chaplin’s great dictator epilogue. Ultimate one-two punch.
Charlie Chaplin, the greatest speech ever made...look it up on youtube
Really? Because to me all it says is how utterly meaningless your existence truly is. And the more you understand this universe the more, and more meaningless it becomes.
TheKrensada I like that our lives are meaningless and have no point. It allows everyone to create their own meaning to life.
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It's the 5th of August 2024, and at least 2 wars are ongoing right now, I would like to say to the parties involved,
"Think of the rivers of blood, spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters, of a fraction... of a dot." Carl Sagan
This speech is so humbling. It puts us in our place. Perhaps nothing encapsulates it better than the line “The delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this pale light”.
Hands down, one of the most meaningful speeches !
Listening to these words from a diminutive part of the Pale Blue Dot. Long after they were said but are so beautiful and meaningful that I shall remember this till the end.
-Gaming with ack
Well said
Carl was a loser.
Carl Sagan "The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be."
Carl Sagan, "I can’t imagine anyone denying the existence of the laws of nature, but I don’t know of any compelling evidence for the old man in the sky."
More from the clueless Carl, --It’s perfectly possible that the universe is infinitely old and therefore uncaused. In fact, there are detailed cosmological models that hold such a view and that are consistent with everything we know. To my mind, it seems not fully satisfactory to say that there was a first cause. That seems to postpone dealing with the problem rather than solving it. If we say “God” made the universe, then surely the next question is, “Who made God?” If we say “God” was always here, why not say the universe was always here? If we say that the question “Where did God come from?” is too tough for us poor mortals to understand, then why not say that the question of, “Where did the universe come from?” is too tough for us mortals? In what way, exactly, does the God hypothesis advance our knowledge of cosmology? What predictions does it make on which the hypothesis will stand or fall?"--
from: www.uscatholic.org/articles/202001/god-and-carl-sagan-cosmos-big-enough-both-them-31939
Read the article. Have a laugh for what a hypocritical, lying, mocking, disgusting, person he was.
Carl cannot get around these laws and what they lead to...
Real science says nothing does nothing. Real science says if there was something there already it must fit with the evidence of what we know. We know the 1LT says there's a conservation of energy. It can change forms and neither can be created or destroyed. Creation cannot happen by natural means. The 2LT has various aspects, one being the universe is winding down, entropy. Usable energy is becoming less usable, so at one point usable energy was at its max. This all points to a supernatural creation, by a supernatural creator at a certain point in which matter, space and time were created. When I read how it can happen otherwise, ALL the fools resort to science-fiction. Once a supernatural creation is accepted, then the next step is finding proof of what supernatural power did it.
....yet he thinks creation happened naturally, "What predictions does it make on which the hypothesis will stand or fall?"
He ignores the CLEAR science that creation had to happen by God supernaturally! Still, he ignores the laws...
"I don’t know of any compelling evidence for the old man in the sky." Notice his mocking God, "man in the sky" as if that makes him look smart as he completely ignores the evidence.
His question, "Who made God?" is as pathetic as he is.
So in his way of useless thinking, if a supernatural creator created the natural realm, then that supernatural creator who created the natural realm with its natural laws has then become also bound by those natural laws the supernatural creator created. So explain why a supernatural creator is also bound by the laws the supernatural creator created. Or, show how smart you are and just give your science for creation happening naturally, and don't forget to give your science how the natural laws were created, too. If he wanted to act smart, it may be a good idea to actually show you are.
Sagan lived his empty life clueless and has clueless followers.
@@2fast2block Dude get a life nobody cares about your fricking essay you wrote there.
@@2fast2block No one cares
I'm a simple person. Not much moves me. I first saw this video many years ago. It moved me like nothing before or after. Since seeing this video years ago, I've lost both parents, multiple cousins, and aunts and uncles. But, when I think of this video, it puts me at peace during these trying times. This is beautifully narrated and whenever I need to level set myself, I always come back to the pale blue dot and appreciate life more.
It shows that all life is just a gift to be appreciated
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This should be played at the beginning of every session of the UN.
different from the other very popular comments on how "this should be seen by every head-of-state everyday" (which i certainly dont disagree with), this one i could see happen... not necessarily soon
but we need it to be soon
Thats a bad idea
Ok, at least not every single gathering of the UN; But I do believe that this is one the most beautiful, inspiring and just a great reminder that nothing matters with just us humans. What matters is not what is around us, but rather what is right next to us in this very moment, not the other beings on other planets, with the same basic ideologies as us, to be the greatest and only species that comes out on top. We are all a figment of the cosmic entity that is the universe, and we have no effect, no say, no way of swaying what happens to all the other usses and wes and yous and mes that live on the other pale blue, or green, or other colored dots that sit out in the darkness and the light. We are all insignificant in the big picture, but what truly matters is what is happening right now, with you, with your friends, your family. What matters is what you do on your pale dot, in the time that you have to live on it.
Surah Al Iklas
@@oompylover312 very well said
Whenever I am in doubt. Whenever I feel like the world makes no sense to me. Whenever I feel disconnected and sad. I watch this video and it gives me a new sense of purpose and courage. To get out there and live life in the moment and appreciate what I have. To keep striving for my best.
The great Carl Sagan. What a teacher.
@Railqun then become a scientist, an engineer, so you can find a way to let us escape our prison
@Railqun finally i find someone who senses like me! Everybody expresses happiness & relief from this cosmic realization! I don't know how they sense that!!! For me it's the total reverse! I sense that life is completely tiny & worthless, that i'm like a "nobody"! I sense like i want to kill myself because my life is so small, & death is inevitable anyway, & eternity is void!
Also, another bad thing about this sense is being in panic & fear that i don't get everything in this life, because it's my only chance in eternity! If i don't have all the money, travel to all places, have sex with someone i love who doesn't love me - get it all perfect, then this makes me feel rage & depression because i'm losing my one single eternal chance to do it!!!
Kinda feels like you are stuck in here like a prison?
Never be able to flee away?
I also come back to this, Sagan's words give me strength when i'm at lowest point of life
Like a faith in an all encompassing God? That is from an atheist.
You're not alone there mate.
same when i lose all compassion towards my fellow man, when i lose sight of our humanity and decency i watch this to remember that harboring hate in ones heart is the same as hell on earth, for what a fraction of a second that is life here. that’s just the ultimate waste. when we could make it even more special for one another
Dear guy on omegle who linked me to this... dunno if you'll see this but sorry we disconnected.
asdfsfdd pls look at the comments
I might actually be that person.
I'm sure if it were him, he would've seen this five months ago ;o
Maybe. I did link someone the video and it disconnected. Coincidence then.
+JohnsParadise If you could describe the context of the conversation and the interest you were speaking under, I could confirm. :-)
I come back to this video when I'm overwhelmed with my life. I spend so much of my life wishing I wasn't alive, struggling to find the energy to crawl onto the next day. Somehow, remembering how tiny the whole world is, how to anyone else in the universe we could scarcely be noticed... it resets me
I'm glad I have the chance to share this dot with you all. Many of us wouldn't like each other if we met... but we're all one another have got. Peace be to you all 💖
Beautiful ❤️
Agreed
I’m glad to have the chance to share this dot with you too Rachel. We all struggle in our own ways. I wish you well.
@LAGreg123 thank you, Greg. My life's gotten unimaginably better since I left this comment, and I put it down in large part to how humbled I've become by this sort of thing
May you find peace and strength in your own struggles too
@@cyber_rachel7427 that’s great!
Why is this message not resonated in every school and educational institutions is beyond baffling. Such simple words with so much weight, the great Carl Sagan, we miss you dearly.
My awesome physics teacher showed us this video. Really left an imprint on my already curious mind on astronomy* and philosophy
Because it doesn’t make sense.
I’m not undermining the beauty of Sagan’s words, especially the first bit. We truly are but a speck of dust in a near infinite cosmic expanse.
But why would that lead one to think that we should all be nice to each other? Couldn’t you just as easily say that murder and rape don’t matter in the grand scheme of things? We’re just microscopic critters on a speck of dust, our suffering means nothing
@@lebecccomputer287 glass half full or half empty. I think its just a matter of perspective. I can totally see that justification
@@lebecccomputer287 it's more about making sure that the human race can survive and live on. and the only way that is at all possible is to make sure we take care, of the only place in the 93 billion lights years of observed space that we know currently has life. And the way we are currently going. we're doing a piss poor job of it.
I try not to get too conspiratorial when it comes to such profound questions...
But I do wonder if there's some kind of concerted effort to keep us all dumbed down, lazy and apathetic...
With a continuous drive to simply consume everything in sight, to keep greed and the capitalistic engine going...
Remember... As shitty, unfair and corrupt as our current system is, many people wouldn't have it any other way...
They simply could not exist in a liberal, progressive and space faring civilization inspired by people like Carl Sagan!
Without unsavoury qualities like Greed, Hate, Fear and Racism... These sad souls wouldn't know what to do with themselves!
They feed on suffering! The more... The merrier...
That speech gives me goosebumps everytime
The most beautiful words ever spoken. The Pale Blue Dot. Simply amazing.
Over 20 years since I first heard this, it still brings tears to my eyes.
The sooner the better the human beast is no longer to exist, human animals are no more then a x between an alian and some other unknown a sport animal and only when the evil beast is no more will it be RIGHT.
I know what you mean my friend.
I'm not an emotional man, I find it hard to express my feelings, to even go out of my way to conceal them at all times - but this video brings those feelings out of me without my being able to resist.
Same bro :(
28 years later and this speech still has the same energy to make everyone emotional.❤️ We miss you Carl Sagan.❤️ Wishing you a very Happy Birthday!🌌
Today is his birthday 😞
@@eledelweis275i know it's late ,but many many happy returns of day , wishing you a happy birthday.. Life can be hard sometimes but keep fighting through it , there's always light at the end of tunnel , sending you virtual hugs
Every Christmas Day I watch this. inspirational.
3.10 " To me it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another"......And what a wonderful world that would be.
Indeed!!!
This speech with Vangelis music makes it one of those special special youtube clips that i always come back to
This is, without a single shred of doubt, one of the most profound things that any human being has put to paper from sheer thought.
"the only home we've ever known" powerful, still gets me every time I listen.
Extremely powerful line.
Yeah, very powerful
Who else listens to pale blue dot for a reality check from time to time
That's poetry of Physics !!!
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is to never die"... wow that's pretty powerful.
This is a video that must be shown every day to every politicians of earth and every students in every school of earth.
I listen to this every once in a while to remind myself not to stress so much.
Same. We're so self-absorbed in the things we created on earth that sometimes we actually think the most ridiculous shit matter.
People often debate who were the most inspirational figures throughout history but, for me, Carl Sagan is up there with the best of them.
I would have to agree. He is such an inspiration to me that he is an answer to one of my security questions. All due respect.
This man is among the best our species has ever produced. His humility and wisdom was years ahead of his time.
definitely the greatest photo of all time.
Every time I'm at loss of confidence or have any fear, I come back to this! This. This is "the reality" of our existence. It fells me with immense confidence and fortitude!
Same 👍
Probably the best UA-cam video I've ever seen.
I'm gonna cry, this is beautiful. This sums it up. We should all watch this. This is beautiful. Every human, should they be able to comprehend it, should watch this.
I first watched COSMOS when I was in college in the late 1970s. I have shared this jewel of wisdom with all my kids and find the message is as meaningful now as then. When life gets too crazy I find solace in this somehow. Thank you, Dr Sagan
“Astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience”
Carl. ❤
Yes.
I vote we recite this in our schools in place for national anthems, culture and race means nothing if we see ourselves as one planet and one people...
So true.
We are one people,
How about we aren’t forced to recite anything because it’s creepy and dumb
@@falubii9712 what is dumb, is that humanity is still slaughtering itself, by ridiculous things,
João Soares more than one thing can be dumb
The world need this man more than ever right now. R I P. I really do miss him :(
This makes me so.... Happy to exist in a time where Carl Sagan has existed
MCDMars me too.
This is how we all look like from some distance. No human is superior to other human being. Our good deeds, kindness, compassion and genuine/ intrinsic empathy makes us significant in our shared humanity during our temporary stay in this life.
I shed tears every time I hear "The Pale Blue Dot". I have listened to "The Pale Blue Dot" hundreds of times and I always get weepy as it is just as powerful now as it was the first time I heard it two decades ago!
I think this might be the most beautiful thing a human has said from a cosmic perspective.
This man has opened my mind to question, everything, to understand everything
"To love is to understand as to understand is to love:"
It took me a very long time to think of this, vague and simple, yet very powerful to me.
To understand the things around you takes a sense of love, vulnerability, adaption and patience.
Once you start to understand, the more you fall in love with the information and everything surrounding it.
Understand yourself, love yourself.
Impossible to express my love for Sagan, the windows to human and universal understanding that this man opened. One can only hope humans have more people like him. ❤️
This is my truth and my faith that I cling to. Absolutely beautiful and humbling. Thank You Dr Sagan.
mote of dust ... suspended in a sun beam.....fuck that's awesome.........what a man...
Every one should start their day hearing this. Then the world will be a better place
It's 2:02 am 4th October 2022, Uzbekistan, Nukus. I'm preparing for my ielts exam and watching this video. Goosebumps are all over my body ane eyes are getting teary. Thanks a lot to the author of this post!!!
I used to watch this video everyday. Somehow lost track of it several years ago and now just found it again, and it’s what I needed to hear at the right time
I wish this could be broadcast simultaneously to every being on the planet. Maybe then we could realize how petty the reasons we fight are.
So true...Like why do we fight
Every noob, every pro, every squeaker kid who wanted to make a living off mlg, all lived on the pale blue dot
and even better, died on that pale blue dot.
Every dank meme lived in that pale blue dot...
loL
World would be much more peaceful, if it follows the words of Sagan , "Momentary Masters" and "Everything we know". It is impeccable mixture of science/hope and spirituality/selflessness. Kudos Carl Sagan.... I am sure 1000 years from now, your words will prove out to be more valuable than any.
This speech is an inspiration for the whole of humanity. It expresses the beauty that the "tiny blue speck" carries.
I just watch this whenever I feel sad
It kinda makes that sadness insignificant 😁
To me this is both the best thing ever written and the best thing ever spoken. I find it a shame that more of our species can't live up to these wonderful words. Respect to Carl and happy Carl Sagan day a day early.
Spectacular speech, every time I watch it helps put the world and its problems back into perspective.
Carl Sagan, you symbolise the best of humanity.
rest in peace.
A Professor introduced me to this and I come back here with tears when I need it too. ❤
Same here
If I'd hear this in a million years, I would still weep
Yet we worship the Kardashians with their plastic backsides
@@seanh4841 we process slowly and with big backward jumps, there's no doubt about that, but this kind of ideas finally made it to the mainstream culture in the last 20 years. It takes time but maybe we'll be at a place where we have a global consciousness before we delete ourselves from existence
@@Cirunz More people have heard about the Kardashians than about Sagan 😢
Carl Sagan was the voice of the Silent but beautiful Cosmos.
If there is a way to be like him, it was found in the simplest things in life.
That is *to know*.
The Earth might be the very centre for our lives but it is not the centre of anything else.
And yet, our stage, home world is a delicate beauty to be.
Suspended in a sun beam.
All we are is dust in the wind, dude.
-Ted "Theodore" Logan
Carl Sagan ... perhaps one of the most amazing minds that has ever lived on this Dot. Every single word he says in this video is the most truth that exists in reality. It ought to be a staple in every child's grade school education! Because it's true! It is the reality! It is the reality in which we live, and everybody should know about it!
Carl Sagan, your teachings your inspiration and even in this case your poetry, changed my life like few other ones since I was a child, miss your inspiration so much. Love & respect.
If this doesn't make you cry, you are not human.
I agree 💯💯
This will forever be the video which I come to from the deepest emotion of my heart. My brother introduced me to this speech and we share it every now and then! ❤ Thankful for ‘the pale blue dot’
Some of the most profound and, in many ways hopeful words ever said. Especially in the grand context in which they were spoken.
Cherish the pale blue dot.
我偶爾會回來看這個
這段短講讓你學會謙卑，讓你對人類的醜陋感到羞愧，但同時又讚嘆人們建構出的一切，你會覺得人們很苗小，但又發覺每個人的人生有多麼精彩豐富
你會發現我們的家只不過是宇宙中的一粒沙，但又感嘆這粒沙裝載太多
Nothing makes me feel so astoundingly insignificant, yet so vitally important as this.
Transcript:
From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
Thank you.
This is the best lesson I've ever learned. I remember when I was little, maybe six, my dad showed me this video. I didn't pay attention at first, because I didn't want to think about how insignificant I really was. I just wanted to play my video games. But near the middle I started listening to what he was saying, and paying attention. If i didn't listen to this speech, I would be a different person. Today I needed a lesson. I was rude to my family and took things for granted. So i watched this video again. When you take something for granted, or act to someone you know, watch this video, and think about how truly insignificant you are.
This man was something else, an actual gift to humanity. RIP and rest well in the dreamless sleep
This speech is more moving than I can express in words.
The more I zoom in I believe god, The more I zoom out the disbelief grows :(
Hi
can you please elaborate, what you meant by these lines
@@shreyakumari7093 use a microscope and see some organisms under it, you start wondering how can all of this be just coincidence, how all this was created
But when you look at planets from farrrr away, you start questioning, where the hell is the creator? If there is a creator where is he
Anyway, I have started beliving in non duality so I do have an answer for my questions
What a shame he’s gone, his words were so beautiful, how he was able to explain the entirety of human history from a single picture from the furthest spacecraft in all of human history
that last line brings tears to my eyes every time i hear it
I listen to this whenever I need to ground my perspective
Watching this Today
After looking at images by James Webb Telescope released by NASA today
How much of a reality check this video gives now ...
226 people must not be from this pale blue dot
Lucas Santos or are creationist
they're aliens here to conquer Earth. Carl Sagan's words are true, but an alien's point of view would be just as true. If they are advanced they might see Earth as a spinning ball of dirt with pathetic creatures on it that haven't even settled their conflicts yet and left their world
I come from Ai3gi5 which is 1633 light years away from your home and I didnt like this video because it wasnt about my dark rusty green dot (my home planet)
dprague
They must be -rascist- specist aliens!!
They are from a flat earth... 😂👍🏼
carl sagan...poet laureate of the cosmos
I could not agree with you more. If only we had more scientists and science popularizes who had the same gift. Brian Green, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Leonard Susskind, and others - have written marvellous books about the mysteries and grandeur of the universe for general audiences, but they simply do not have Sagan's gravitas and eloquence.
Carl Sagan was one of the smartest people, and it is truly sad that he died. He was and still is a legend
Over 40 years since this first appeared on Cosmos and it still moves me to tears! How we could use his soothing wisdom today!
June 2nd 2020. The world needs to hear this .
indeed.
Indeed
@@westportenterprises8100 Yes indeed.
Thanks, Fate/Requiem for making me cry
Voyager makes me feel like crying and I haven't even read his background yet. Just his skill names, NP, and his animations.
Feel like he might even become a key player against the Alien God since he embodies Humanity's greatest achievement.
His 2nd np remind me of this speech and make my eye wet every damn time
One of the few best videos on UA-cam. Total goosebumpy. ❤
Instead of pledging allegiance to the flag, children across the globe should get to watch this video at the beginning of each school day! The generation that adheres to these values will be the first to truly experience world peace.
That don't win pissing contests with other world capitals. Blind, dumb tribal allegiance does. Well, at least that's the (unproven) theory.
"What people believe prevails over the truth."
- Sophocles, "The Sons of Aleus"
"How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth."
- Sophocles, "Oedipus Rex"
"True words are not beautiful, beautiful words are not true."
- Dao De Jing, chapter 81
We need to get rid of flags and the concept of nationalities. We need to strive for unity and world peace.
dolphinsatsunset1 You're demanding too much of human nature. We're not gonna have world peace, as long as the fertile females' only criteria for choice of mate is that he has to dominate the other males. Then you can have only war.