Saganism

The interstellar species

The Pale Blue Dot

"On it everybody you love, everybody you know,

everybody you've ever heard of, lived out their days there.

The aggregate of all our joy and suffering.

Thousands of confident ideologies, religions,

economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every revered teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every uncorrupt politician too, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there." - Carl Sagan

The Planet of the idiots

I imagine an extraterrestrial visitation of the sort that there is absolutely no evidence for coming upon the Earth ... and then listening in on on what people all over the planet are saying.

And they're saying "We're at the center, we are important we're special, everything goes around us!" And then I imagine the extraterrestrials thinking of us as I don't know the the

Planet of the Idiots." - Carl Sagan

Just being here

"Those of us who wish for us to be important, should do something important. We should make a an easily understandable, achievable and inspiring goal for the human species and then set out and do it that would give us the confidence that we sorely lack" - Carl Sagan

Tools of the future

Critical (Scientific) Thinking & Learning through curiosity

"We should never take anything on faith. That's really the mantra of science if you want... You don't lose anything by losing faith. What you gain is reality. We want to find easy and understandable explanations for everything and we create them if we need to, to satisfy ourselves. Because we need to make sense of the world around us. And we can't impose our believes on the universe. And the way we get around that, is by constantly questioning ourselves and all the information we receive from others." - Laurence Krauss (edited)

Christopher Hitchens

"Who am I you may well ask to instruct or advise you on these grave matters, but even Moses himself was a revisionist and issued at least 4 versions of the decalogue or the top 10. So if he can be a revisionist, well, so can I." - Christopher Hitchens

You see, the idea that our sense of self-worth comes not from anything that we've done. Not from anything worthy, but by an accident of birth is where the crux of the humiliation is in my opinion