Can’t wait to see how the reboot is. I sometimes find myself watching old Cosmos episodes because I miss it. Loved the quotes from Sagan in Peter Cawdron’s post so I thought I would share it.
This weekend, Neil deGrasse Tyson is appearing in a reboot of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, which will undoubtedly awaken a new generation to the wonders of our universe. In light of this, here are some of my favorite quotes from Carl Sagan.
Picture credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The specks of light you can see are not stars, not even galaxies, they’re quasars, phenomenally energetic black holes at the center of large galaxies. They thin out toward the edges not because there’s less of them further away from us but because we are looking back billions of years to when they were less developed.
“The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. And yet our species is young and curious and brave and…
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Author TJ Hapney 
Hey TJ: received your “like” (scifibookreview.com) and have been visiting around your blog. I like your list of books …we have similar taste. Would you be interested in reviewing “Cosmic Entanglement?” It’s great to find another that shares opinions on various scifi/fantasy books.
Hi. Thanks for your comments. Glad you liked my blog. I’ll take a look and let you know about a review for Cosmic Entanglement.