Gambar ini adalah foto bumi dari jarak sekitar 6 milyar kilometer yang diambil oleh satelit Voyager 1 pada 14 Februari 1990. Di kalangan fisikawan, foto ini dinamakan sebagai pale blue dot karena bumi terlihat sebagai titik kecil (kurang dari 1 pixel) dengan warna biru pucat yang berada di antara sinar matahari.

Ada perkataan yang menarik dari Carl Sagan tentang gambar ini:

"Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, 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... ...It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

Yah, sejatinya ilmu pengetahuan itu memang harus membuat kita semakin humble terhadap sesama, terlebih humble terhadap Sang Pencipta.

Mari bertanya pada diri sendiri, sudahkah yang kita pelajari membuat kita semakin humble?

Sumber gambar.