American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
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He made the universe intimate. An astronomer who sent golden records into deep space, then turned around and narrated Cosmos to half a billion people, teaching a generation that we're all made of star-stuff and that skepticism is a form of wonder.
Carl Edward Sagan started as an assistant professor at Harvard before moving to Cornell, where he directed the Laboratory for Planetary Studies and worked on the Mariner, Viking, and Voyager programs. He published over 600 scientific papers while writing popular science books — The Dragons of Eden won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. In 1980 he co-wrote and narrated Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, a documentary series seen by at least 500 million people in 60 countries that won two Emmys and a Peabody; its companion book became the bestselling science book to date. He developed the Pionee…
Sourced, dated quotes from Carl Sagan
We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.
Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.
The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous.
Imagine, a room, awash in gasoline. And there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has 9,000 matches. The other has 7,000 matches.
It is easy to create an interstellar radio message which can be recognized as emanating unambiguously from intelligent beings. A modulated signal (‘beep,’ ‘beep-beep,’ . . .
The six component signals behind the Fame score, and their ranks across the leaderboards.
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