In reference to Carl Sagan's 1990 "Pale Blue Dot"...
“What Discoveries they may have made in the other and greater Worlds, than this Earth, we have not yet had an account; possibly they are conversant with other Parts of God’s Creation, besides this little little Globe, which is but as a Point in comparison of the Rest; and with other of God’s Creatures besides Man, who may, according to the Opinion of our Philosophers, inhabit those Worlds; but as no body knows that Part but the Devil, we shall not trouble our selves with the Enquiry.” ― Daniel Defoe, The History of the Devil, as Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts, 1726