is the photo called Pale Blue Dot . And section of Carl Sagan ' s thoughts on the subjectWe succeeded in taking that picture , and , if you look at it , you see a dot . That ' s here . That ' s home . That ' s us . On it , everyone you ever heard of , every human being who ever lived , lived out their lives . The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings , thousands of confident religions , ideologies and economic doctrines , every hunter and forager , every hero and coward , every creator and destroyer of civilizations , every king and peasant , every young couple in love , every hopeful child , every mother and father , every 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 . Carl Sagan , speech at Cornell University , October 13 , 1994