What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilisation is a few hundred years old ... an advanced civilisation millions of years old is as much beyond us as we are beyond a bushbaby or a macaque

And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.

Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.

A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?

In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams!

Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so they'll obey the law. That's the only means that occurs to you: a strict secular police force, and the threat of punishment by an all-seeing God for whatever the police overlook. You sell human beings short.