There are words so profoundly beautiful that I wish they were floating by so I could catch and cherish them. We are flooded with words and quotes, worthy and unworthy. Which of them shall we read deeply, which shall we remember, which ignore?

For today, my answer includes a few of those spoken by Carl Sagan.

Sagan was a public intellectual and astronomer with the gift of words. He died too early, in 1996, at the age of 62. To the good, he lives on in videos and books.

The eloquence and significance of his thoughts are evident in a less than four-minute video he wrote and narrated, which has been described as “a speech that will change your life.“

Please click the link, then watch and listen.

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This video was produced by a worthwhile YouTube site that goes by the misleading name Word Porn. Trust me, there is nothing pornographic about them or their work. The video is called Pale Blue Dot and was licensed from carlsagan.com/

The top image is Carl Sagan. The bottom photograph, taken by the James Webb Telescope, is called Webb’s First Deep Field.