“I had an experience… I can’t prove it, I can’t even explain it, but everything that I know as a human being, everything that I am tells me that it was real! I was given something wonderful, something that changed me forever… A vision of the universe that tells us, undeniably, how tiny, and insignificant and how … rare, and precious we all are! A vision that tells us that we belong to something that is greater than ourselves, that we are not — that none of us — are alone! … I wish I could share that. I wish, that everyone, if only for one moment, could feel that awe, and humility, and hope. But … that continues to be my wish.”

“Ellie Arroway” in Contact

based on the novel by

Carl Sagan (Born November 9, 1934)

“In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.”
– Carl Sagan, Cosmos Episode 12: Encyclopedia Galactica