Our Place In The Cosmos (feat. Sagan)

[Narrator]

With every century

Our eyes on the universe have been opened anew

We are witness

To the very brink of time and space

[Robert Jastrow]

We must ask ourselves

We who are so proud of our accomplishments

What is our place in the cosmic perspective of life?

[Carl Sagan]

The exploration of the cosmos

Is a voyage of self discovery

As long as there have been humans

We have searched for our place in the cosmos

[Richard Dawkins]

Are there things about the universe

That will be forever beyond our grasp?

Are there things about the universe that are

Ungraspable?

[Sagan]

One of the great revelations of space exploration

Is the image of the earth, finite and lonely

Bearing the entire human species

Through the oceans of space and time

[Dawkins]

Matter flows from place to place

And momentarily comes together to be you

Some people find that thought disturbing

I find the reality thrilling

[Sagan]

As the ancient mythmakers knew

We're children equally of the earth and the sky

In our tenure on this planet, we've accumulated

Dangerous evolutionary baggage

We've also acquired compassion for others,

Love for our children,

And a great soaring passionate intelligence

The clear tools for our continued survival

[Michio Kaku]

We could be in the middle

Of an inter-galactic conversation

And we wouldn't even know

[Sagan]

We've begun at last

To wonder about our origins

Star stuff contemplating the stars

Tracing that long path

Our obligation to survive and flourish

Is owed not just to ourselves

But also to that cosmos

Ancient and vast, from which we spring