It feels redundant to say "Carl Sagan had a way with words." For so many in the skeptical, science and thinker communities his very name conjures chills of his steady voice, elegantly painting an objective picture of reality in a detail and beauty that religious text always struggle to provide. He lived his life in the exact way he preached - like it's all we get. No afterlife. No reunions. No eternal bliss or damnation.
What we get is what we have
now - not what we might get based on the ruminations of ancient people in ancient times.
Zenpencil.com have put one of his most beautifully haunteing quotes to a perfect and simple visual:
If only we could get everyone behind this kind of message.
