Carl Sagan ✓

(1934–1996) university teacher

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[Wikidata] American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)... | [Wikipedia] Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, planetary scientist and science communicator. Initially an assistant professor at Harvard, Sagan later moved to Cornell, where he was the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and directed the Laboratory for Planetary Studies. He played

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• In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature. Art
• Even through your hardest days, remember we are all made of stardust. All
• We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands. The loom of time and space works the most astonishing transformations of… Astonishing
• If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles. Been
• The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them - the sense that we have a monopoly on the… Across
• The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work. Appeals
• Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers. Answers
• Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation Animal
• A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our survival. It is… All
• If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth. Broadened
• After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be… Billion
• The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning. Concept
• If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone? All
• Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Earth
• The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance. America
• Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience. Everyone
• Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting… Better
• The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood Calls
• We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos. Children
• The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn… All
• Whatever the reason you're on Mars, I'm glad you're there, and I wish I was with you. Glad
• There are lots of ways to communicate what we know, but few ways to communicate what we feel. Music is one way to communicate emotions. Communicate
• I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true. Advantage
• The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. Information distilled over… All
• Science is a collaborative enterprise, spanning the generations. When it permits us to see the far side of some new horizon, we remember those who… Collaborative

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