Carl Sagan Quote

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.

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (ed. Ballantine Books, 2011) - ISBN: 9780307801012