Insignificant Little Blue Planet/Quotes: Difference between revisions

{{quote| Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving<br />

And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,<br />

That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,<br />

A sun that is the source of all our power.<br />

The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see<br />

Are moving at a million miles a day<br />

In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,<br />

Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.<br />

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.<br />

It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.<br />

It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,<br />

But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.<br />

We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.<br />

We go 'round every two hundred million years,<br />

And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions<br />

{{quote|The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding<br />

In all of the directions it can whizz<br />

As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,<br />

Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.<br />

So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,<br />

How amazingly unlikely is your birth,<br />

And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,<br />

{{quote|It's a great big universe<br />

And we're all really puny<br />

We're just tiny little specks<br />

About the size of Mickey Rooney.<br />

It's big and black and inky<br />

And we are small and dinky<br />

{{quote| 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.}}

{{quote|Ah, Lucifer, look back upon our Earth;<br />

First did the flowers vanish from our sight,<br />

And then the swaying branches of the woods;<br />

The well-known landscape, with its pleasant haunts<br />

Merged fast into a flat plain, featureless,<br />

And every landmark faded and grew dim.<br />

Then dwindled mighty rocks to clods of earth,<br />

The cloud that lightning veils and thunder's roar -<br />

The voice of God to them which dwell below -<br />

We saw as vapour driven by the wind.<br />

The boundless ocean's ever surging waves,<br />

Where are they now? A shadow on the globe<br />

That turns and mingles with a thousand stars.<br />

{{quote|''And crawling, on the planet's face,''<br />

''Some insects, called the human race,''<br />

''Lost in time, and lost in space...''<br />

{{quote|''Uninstall<br />

Uninstall<br />

I know now that I am just a tiny grain of sand<br />

Upon a vast beach<br />

{{quote|"Klytus, I'm ''bored''. What plaything can you offer me today?"<br />