It has been said that astronomy is a humbling

And character-building experience

There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits

Than this distant image of our tiny world

From this distant vantage point

The Earth might not seem of any particular interest

Lived there, on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam

To preserve and cherish the pale blue dot

In our obscurity, in all this vastness

There is no hint in the great enveloping cosmic dark