Ethics by Carl Sagan

Philosophy is almost synonymous with astronomy. Before Socrates turned the focus of philosophy from the cosmos to the mind, some of the first philosophers were astronomers postulating about the origins of humanity and our place in it. Like Aristotle, Pythagoras, and Galileo, Carl Sagan is a philosopher and astronomer who gives us a solid moral framework from the physical world that is reasoned and based in logic.

"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. It is up to us… To my mind, 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 and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." - Carl Sagan, The Pale Blue Dot

Also see: Carl Sagan's A Pale Blue Dot on the Independent Attention blog

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