Cosmos (TV Mini Series)

One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue (1980)

Carl Sagan: Self - Host

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• Carl Sagan - Host : Evolution is a fact, not a theory. It really happened.

• [first lines] 

  Carl Sagan - Host : All my life, I've wondered about life beyond the earth. On those countless other planets that we think circle other suns, is there also life? Might the beings of other worlds resemble us, or would they be astonishingly different? What would they be made of? In the vast Milky Way galaxy, how common is what we call life? The nature of life on earth and the quest for life elsewhere are the two sides of the same question: the search for who we are.

• [last lines] 

  Carl Sagan - Host : We've heard so far the voice of life on only a single world, but, for the first time - as we shall see - we've begun a serious, scientific search for the cosmic fugue.

• Carl Sagan - Host : The planets of the galaxy might be filled with micro-organisms, but big beasts and vegetables and thinking beings might be comparatively rare.