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Cosmos TV Mini Series 1980

Carl Sagan: The cosmos is also within us, were made of star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos, to know itself.

— Cosmos TV Mini Series 1980 self

Carl Sagan: There are some hundred billion galaxies, each with, on the average, a hundred billion stars, 1011 x 1011 = 1022, ten billion trillion. In the face of such overpowering numbers, what is the likelihood that only one ordinary star, the Sun, is accompanied by an inhabited planet? Why should we, tucked away in some forgotten corner of the Cosmos, be so fortunate? To me, it seems far more likely that the universe is brimming over with life. But we humans do not yet know. We are just beginning our explorations. From eight billion light-years away we are hard pressed to find even the cluster in which our Milky Way Galaxy is embedded, much less the Sun or the Earth. The only planet we are sure is inhabited is a tiny speck of rock and metal, shining feebly by reflected sunlight, and at this distance utterly lost.

— Cosmos TV Mini Series 1980 life

Carl Sagan: The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily under control.

— Cosmos TV Mini Series 1980 art

Carl Sagan: The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.

— Cosmos TV Mini Series 1980 will

Carl Sagan: Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.

— Cosmos TV Mini Series 1980 art

Carl Sagan: Alexandria was the greatest city the Western world had ever seen. People of all nations came here to live, to trade, to learn. On any given day, its harbors were thronged with merchants, scholars, and tourists. This was a city where Greeks, Egyptians, Arabs, Syrians, Hebrews, Persians, Nubians, Phoenicians, Italians, Gauls, and Iberians exchanged merchandise and ideas. It is probably here that the word cosmopolitan realized its true meaning - citizen, not just of a nation, but of the Cosmos. To be a citizen of the Cosmos...

— Cosmos TV Mini Series 1980 change

Carl Sagan: Where we have strong emotions, were liable to fool ourselves.

— Cosmos TV Mini Series 1980 emotions

Carl Sagan: Up there in the immensity of the Cosmos, an inescapable perception awaits us. National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic, religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.

— Cosmos TV Mini Series 1980 art

Carl Sagan: A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars.

— Cosmos TV Mini Series 1980 stars

Carl Sagan: [Flying the Spaceship of the Imagination] Here we see another inhabited planet. I wonder what kind of new political ideas they have down there, what religions...

— Cosmos TV Mini Series 1980 religion

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