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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• We are the universe experiencing itself. Experiencing
• We are made of star-stuff. Our bodies are made of star-stuff. There are pieces of star within us all. All
• We are all made up of star stuff. All
• Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions. Greatest
• The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it Anticipation
• Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. Ancestor
• Valid criticism does you a favor. Criticism
• The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff Cosmos
• We were wanderers from the beginning. Beginning
• Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs — in… Ancestor
• We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West, Heaven is placid… All
• The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos. Act
• The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe… Bang
• On the day that we do discover that we are not alone, our society may begin to evolve and transform in some incredible and wondrous… Alone
• There is a lurking fear that some things are not meant to be known. Fear
• We are one species. We are starstuff. Inspirational
• Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television. Dream
• What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited… Adults
• What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human understanding we are… Any
• The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability,… Belongs
• A stars rich in europium; of distant galaxies analyzed through the collective light of a hundred billion constituent stars. Astronomical spectroscopy is an almost magical… Almost Magical
• [Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science. Dearest
• In a complex universe, in a society undergoing unprecedented change, how can we find the truth if we are not willing to question everything and… Change
• Organic as a dandelion seed, [the ship of our imagination] will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts Carry
• UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable. Cases

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