History Quotes / InsignificantLittleBluePlanet

-->-- ''Theatre/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''

-->-- '''Creaotr/CarlSagan'''

-->--''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife'', 'Universe Song'

-->--'''Adam''', ''The Tragedy of Man''

-->-- Frnchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy's (revised) entry for "The Earth" in its entirety.

-->--'''[=Dr. McCoy=]''', ''Film/StarTrek''

-->--'''Michael Swaim''', "The 8 Most Misguided Sci-Fi Versions Of 2008"

'''Peridot:''' Apparently more than ''you'', you...[[IronicEcho C]][[CatchphraseInsult L]][[AtomicFBomb O]][[HeelFaceTurn D]]!

->'''Yellow Diamond:''' You are to leave the Cluster to grow. It will tear apart the Earth, and I will take immense satisfaction in erasing that hideous rocks off of our star maps! ''Is that clear?''\\

--> ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', "Earthlings"

'''Peridot:''' Apparently more than ''you'', you...[[IronicEcho C]][[CatchphraseInsult L]][[AtomicFBomb O]][[HealFaceTurn D]]!

'''Yellow Diamond:''' What do ''you''

-->--''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''

-->--''Manga/{{Bokurano}}''

-->--'''[[http://projectnes.blogspot.com/2010/10/baryogenesis-and-other-love-poems-color.html Dr. Phil Sandifer]]'''

-->-- '''Bandora''', ''KyoryuSentaiZyuranger''

-> "Klytus, I'm ''bored''. What plaything can you offer me today?"\\
"An obscure body in the SK system, Your Majesty. The inhabitants refer to it as the planet... ''Earth''."
-->-- ''Film/FlashGordon''

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. 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.

-->-- '''NeilDeGrasseTyson''', ''Death by Black Hole''

-->-- '''Pram''', ''MakaiKingdom''

->Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.\\\

-->--''{{Bokurano}}''

-->-- '''Calvin''', ''CalvinAndHobbes''

-->--'''BugsBunny''', ''The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie''

-->-- '''''Leto Atreides II''' - {{Literature/GodEmperorOfDune}}''

-->-- ''{{Literature/Dune}}''

->''"The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding\\

'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth"''
-->--'''''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife''''', 'Universe Song'

->''"And crawling, on the planet's face,\\

And meaning"''
-->-- '''''TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'''''

->''"It's a great big universe\\

It's a big universe and we're not"''
-->--'''''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'''''

-->--'''''{{Bokurano}}'''''

->''"Ah, Lucifer, look back upon our Earth;\\

And yet that Earth was all the world for us."''

->''"Mostly harmless."''

->''"Earth? Horrible name for a planet. Might as well call it 'Dirt'. Planet Dirt."''

->''"Space is disease and death wrapped in a darkness and silence!"''

->''My travels in the ancestral mazes have memorized uncounted places and events which I never desire to see repeated. I have seen peoples and planets in such numbers that they lose meaning even in imagination. Ohhh, the landscapes I have passed. The calligraphy of alien roads glimpsed from space and imprinted upon my innermost sight. The eroded sculpture of canyons and cliffs and galaxies has imprinted upon me the certain knowledge that I am a mote.''
-->-- '''''{{Dune}}'''''

->''"Let's face facts: in the larger context of galactic civilization, we're the guys standing in the corner with no pants on clanking rocks together."''

->''"In one such world, in the corner of some backwater galaxy, humans rule over a senseless planet...However, that's about as important as a speck of dust in this pluralistic cosmos."''

->''"That cloud of stars is our galaxy, the Milky Way. Our solar system is on the edge of it. We hurl through an incomprehensible darkness. In cosmic terms, we are subatomic particles in a grain of sand on an infinite beach."''

-> "Klytus, I'm ''bored''. What plaything can you offer me today?"
-> "An obscure body in the SK system, Your Majesty. The inhabitants refer to it as the planet... ''Earth''."

-> "Viewing so far away the Earth is like a mysterious blue sapphire."
-> "Aside from my Dora Scope the planet's just a swarm of filthy trash."

->''"Until one day... very deep in a 6th-rate galaxy called 'The Milky Way'... circling around a 4th-rate star called 'The Sun'... on a 10th-rate planet, a strange creature appeared... a strange creature called 'Man'..."''

->''“The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.”''

->''“It is a stage in the decay of the solar system; at a certain stage of decay you get the sort of conditions of temperature and so forth which are suitable to protoplasm, and there is life for a short time in the life of the whole solar system. You see in the moon the sort of thing to which the earth is tending -- something dead, cold, and lifeless.”''
-->--'''Bertrand Russell'''

->''"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.\\\
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. 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."''
-->-- '''Carl Sagan'''

->''“The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.”''
-->--Martin Amis

->''“Apparently there is no profit in the unique, or not enough to make it worthwhile to preserve. Ultimately it drains the life out of us, and existentialism starts to make more and more sense."''
-->--'''LewisBlack''', ''Nothing's Sacred''

->''"What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck of the cosmos.\\\
Have a nice day."''

->''"It is only in light of the sheer and painful triviality of human existence in terms of the universe that creationism can be understood... This view treats recorded history as, effectively, [[IRejectYourReality the only form of history.]] Various dates exist, the most famous of which is probably Archbishop James Ussher's due to its alarming specificity, claiming that the universe was created the evening before October 26, 4004 BC. Physical evidence shows that this is only off by a factor of 2.25 million or so. This scale of error necessitates the assumption of [[GodIsEvil a Cartesian Demon of a God]] who laid an elaborate fossil record for, presumably, the sole purpose of fucking with arrogant humans. The fact that this view is preferred by some to science and empiricism speaks of the sheer damage done to the anthropic principle by science -- it is so unseated that a malevolent god is actually a comfort in the face of the sheer arbitrariness of humanity on the geologic scale."''
-->--'''[[http://projectnes.blogspot.com/2010/10/baryogenesis-and-other-love-poems-color.html Phil Sandifer]]'''

->''"Until one day... very deep in a 6th-rate galaxy called 'The Milky Way'... circling around a 4th-rate star called 'The Sun'... on a 10th-rate planet, a strange creature appeared... a strange creature called 'Man'..."''
-->--'''BugsBunny''', ''The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie''

->''Mostly harmless.''

->''"Until one day... very deep in a 6th-rate galaxy called 'The Milky Way'... circling around a 4th-rate star called 'The Sun'... on a 10th-rate planet, a strange creature appeared... a strange creature called "Man"..."''