“For me, the most ironic token of that moment in history is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads: ‘We came in peace, for all mankind.’ As the United Stares was dropping 7 and a half megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity: We would harm no one on a lifeless rock.”
- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot (via thecosmicwarrior)
- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot (via thecosmicwarrior)