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Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences.
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"So, it’s high time someone made a sequel to it, and now someone is! In partnership with Sagan’s colleagues Ann Druyan (who is also his widow) and Steven Soter, Seth MacFarlane — yes, that Seth MacFarlane — is going to produce a new 13-part series to serve as a sequel and modern update to Sagan’s masterpiece. Taking over the hosting duties will be none other than well-known astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson, who has served as host of NOVA ScienceNOW on PBS for the past five years, so he has plenty of experience making science accessible to the general public. It would be difficult to think of anyone who would be better able to succeed the late, great Carl Sagan. The folks working on it will take their time and do it right — it’s not scheduled to air until sometime in 2013. The producers of the show say the new series will tell “the story of how human beings began to comprehend the laws of nature and find our place in space and time.” They go on to boast: “It will take viewers to other ...
Robert Zemeckis' adaptation of Carl Sagan novel is an enjoyable, if long, speculation on first contact with ETI's. Deffo 5/5 :o)
One of my favorite movies of all time. It was based on a book by Carl Sagan. Jodi Foster was amazing ...
"We live in a society dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." -Carl Sagan
This may finally be the reason I have needed to become a pledging member to my local PBS station. What if Bill Nye, Bob Ross, Mr. Rogers and Carl Sagan were the Avengers??
Carl Sagan, Bob Ross, Bill Nye and Mister Rogers team up to save the world from pointless reality TV shows in 'PBS: The Movie'.
When Honey Booboo and other godawful reality shows clog the airwaves, there's only four people you can call. Carl Sagan. Mr. Rogers. Bill Nye the Science Guy. Bob Ross. Together, they are the PBS Avengers, and this world would be a better place if this video were real.
like, the only person I've ever lost my cool when I met them for a signing was Carl Sagan. Peter Beagle might be the second...
Only losers smoke weed. Well , it worked pretty well for the losers like Steve Jobs , Carl Sagan , Francis Crick , Barack Obama and lot more
Tell IB_based Cc They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at Wright Brothers,but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown ~Carl Sagan
As recited by Brian Cox in that TED Talk, this, is Carl Sagan's (RIP) "Pale Blue Dot":
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan
The poems Carl Sagan sent Timothy Leary in prison spoke of cosmic wonder!
not the thought of leaving our tiny blue orb as Carl Sagan once said. Love you
Hi I take scientist's quotes and turn them into comics. 2 by Carl Sagan: IFLS!
Carl Sagan...what a genius, another one sadly missed.
Nothing like reading/ watching some Carl Sagan on a Sunday night to feel chilled.
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence - Carl Sagan
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan~ Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known.
Carl Sagan on religion, politics and science.
I don't want to believe , I want to know .. Carl Sagan
“My wonder button is being pushed all the time.” ~ Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan shares a future vision, gazing back in time through humanity's possible positive evolutionary...
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”-Carl Sagan
I hacked together a robot jewelry box lol
Carl Sagan on the great library of Alexandria: via
"We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology." -Carl Sagan
Photoset: Listen to your friend Carl Sagan…he’s a cool dude.
"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love." ~Carl Sagan
It reminds of the Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan.
“If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe. ~Carl Sagan”
“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.” ~ Carl Sagan
Same. And then I discovered Carl Sagan, Tim Minchin and Christopher Hitchens within weeks of each other and never looked back.
Seth MacFarlane and Neil Degrasse Tyson or looking to bring back Carl Sagan's Cosmos.
You seriously need to read some James Randi or Carl Sagan instead of expanding your organization.
Kumare is nuts. All those people need some Carl Sagan, and some James Randi in their lives.
I am running out of people I want to (and will ever be able to) meet; Carl Sagan, Patrick Moore now Margaret Thatcher to name but a few.
Want 2 stretch your mind beyond what is possible? Steven Hawking, Aurthur C Clark, Carl Sagan
Brian Cox is awesome, bit of a Carl Sagan wannabe though :P you should check out Robert Lanza *_*
"The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science" - Carl Sagan
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, by Carl Sagan. This book is worth reading. I hope I can...
.and Carl Sagan both have an Erdos-Bacon number of 6. That's pretty cool.
Sorry, Brian Greene i'ma let you finish but Carl Sagan got one of the best cientific divulgation work ever!
Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Carl Sagan. Men of mind and substance, Atheist role models🎯
Astrophysicists got Carl Sagan...and we have Zahi Hawass. nice one Gabe
Carl Sagan is the closest thing to god I've ever seen.
5 TIPS FOR FEMALE FAT LOSS (tips at bottom) You may have heard (or realized first hand!), that it’s more difficult for women to lose fat than men. Differences in male and female hormones are certainly involved - both in the fat loss process as well as in the patterns of fat storage on the body. But the biggest obstacle is NOT hormonal issues, it’s one little fat loss relativity factor that almost all women overlook… That factor is the simple fact that women are usually smaller and lighter than men, yet they err by setting their goals and designing their nutrition plans like men or larger women. This especially applies to short and petite women who still have body fat to lose. Last week I received an email from a member who told me she was doing 3 weight training and 6 cardio sessions per week and the cardio was 45 minutes at a clip. She said she weighed 111 lbs at 4 feet 11 inches tall, but even though she was petite, she had “several pounds of flab” she wanted to lose and just felt kind of “m ...
Neil Degrasse Tyson and Carl Sagan. Look them up, you'll see life in a new way.
Photo: martinlkennedy: Book cover artwork for Cosmos by Carl Sagan.
I had to change my background and header pics. They were formerly pictures of Jorge Ramos. Now they're of Carl Sagan.
The Arecibo message was broadcast into space a single time via frequency modulatedradio waves at a ceremony to mark the remodeling of the Arecibo radio telescope on 16 November 1974.[1] It was aimed at the globular star cluster M13 some 25,000 light years away because M13 was a large and close colle...
"You have to know the past to understand the present." Dr. Carl Sagan
I honestly think that carl sagan had such a wonderful mind. I've been reading up on this guy almost all day.
Where skeptical observation and discussion are suppressed, the truth is hidden - Carl Sagan
Cute picture. True words from Carl Sagan, too.
Foto: Even through ur hardest days, remember we r all made of star dust. -Carl Sagan.
"The old appeals to racial sexual religious chauvinism and to rabid nationalist fervor are beginning not to work..." Carl Sagan
He's basically a modern day Carl Sagan. Hes the guy who got me into astrophysics, and his words are purely inspirational.
From a few days ago. My kitten ❤s watching Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking lol
What book are you reading before bed tonight?
I wish Carl Sagan could have been my friend.
"Extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, so kill me or take me as I am, for I shall not change." -the Marquis de Sade "To me the offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that wont give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I dont know anything like enough yet, that I havent understood enough, that I cant know enough; that im always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom - I wouldnt have it any other way - and I urge you to look at those people that tell you at your age that youre dead until you believe as they do, that you can only live by accepting an absolute authority. Dont think of it as a gift. Think of it as a poison chalice. Push it aside however tempting it is. Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more t ...
Lilly chose to watch Carl Sagan's Cosmos on Netflix. She's learning about light, space and Einstein! Holy crap!
*Note-to-self* Pick up a book by Carl Sagan at RPL
"We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces." - Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan looked like a pretty charismatic dude
I love listening to Neil Degrasse Tyson and Carl Sagan talk.
Carl Sagan-Cosmos edited for rednecks lol! Thought you'd laugh at this 'Jesus-sawusrex'
A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact" - Carl Sagan
I'm about to bake raps from scratch like Carl Sagan
For small things such as we, the vastness is only bearable through love... —Carl Sagan' 👽💞👽
'I don't want to believe. I want to know' - Carl Sagan.
Seriously, take the time and watch this. Carl Sagan is the man.
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense. -- Carl Sagan
bout to waste an hour of my life taking notes over a Carl Sagan video...
Carl Sagan's voice is like if thunder became eloquent.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Dr. Carl Sagan
I love Hubble LOL I wish Carl Sagan could have been here to narrate this though
Congrats to Raphael Perrino of Save the James Webb Space Telescope and Milky Way Musings - Home of the Carl Sagan...
“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic.” ― Carl Sagan
"an extraterrestrial visitor examining the differences among human societies would find those differences trivial compared to the similarities. " -Carl Sagan
It's been 12 years since Douglas Adams died. I was a big fan and remember being a bit teary eyed. He and Carl Sagan are probably the two people, who I don't know personally, who I felt a personal loss when they died. Completely by coincidence, Evan left the house last night on his trip to Ohio with Staci and his brother and took the the Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide hardback book I hope he enjoys it again. I read that entire series to the boys about 4 years ago, each character getting their own voice and accent. What a great memory.
I wish I could wear turtlenecks. I just want to look like Carl Sagan.
Sharp-eyed visitors might notice that participants in the Science Olympiad left a calling card in the Lower Columbia College gym throughout the weekend.
Carl Sagan just used Johannes Kepler to make me cry tears of joy.
El Misterio de los Cabezas Redondas del Tassili...in-te-re-san-te...
Carl Sagan was so darn smart. The show he wrote called "Cosmos" was great, we would watch every week after unplugging the phone...
Interesting position. Carl Sagan perspective. Wish we had more of it!
Tribute portrait of the late, great, Carl Sagan by
I'm goin with thosw carl sagan books!
kager lynn is spinning 'A Glorious Dawn' by Carl Sagan ft. Stephen Hawking in the Chillout Mixer:
Yeah I agree with this, it's just that good uses of them came to mind when you mentioned them. I'm thinking Carl Sagan.
Any quote from Carl Sagan makes my day
"I don't know where I'm going, but I'm in my way."-Carl Sagan
Max, your sweetness is delectable. I could eat you up.
Watching Barney with my sick little girl. I love spending time relaxing with her, but Barney is just downright awful. I'm about to make her watch Cosmos. She hasn't experienced Carl Sagan yet...
"We are the custodians of life's meaning." -Carl Sagan
It's kinda complicated. Basically, there was a squirrel, a t-rex, a gundam, a dolphin, Ron Paul and Carl Sagan and...yeah.
Researchers in the United Kingdom have found algae-like fossils in meteorite fragments that landed in Sri Lanka last year. This is the strongest evidence yet of cometary panspermia -- that life on Earth began when a meteorite containing simple organisms landed here, billions of years ago.
Carl Sagan, one of my personal heroes.
I sound like Carl Sagan after a LOT of Opiates.
When we talk about the medicinal benefits of marijuana, those who disapprove of its use tend to roll their eyes. But the fact is, this powerful plant has numerous potential applications in healthcare and pain management in particular.
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true. - Carl Sagan
I have just accepted an offer of admission from the Cornell Department of Astronomy and Space Sciences PhD program. I will be going to Cornell in the Fall!
If I created a YouTube channel what types of videos would you be most interested in viewing on a regular basis?
Need anyone who believes in prayer to please pray that God's favor is shown on me about some very important decisions being made bout my life that are out of my hands. I trust God is gonna show me a way.
All pot heads are stupid that's why they can't understand why marijuana is illegal. Smoking pot makes you stupid.
"Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course. Microbiology and meteorology now explain what only a few centuries ago was considered sufficient cause to burn women to death." ― Carl Sagan
carl sagan Biography Carl Sagan's Vision of Mars Biography CARL SAGAN was the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University. He played a leading role in the American space program since its inception. He was a consultant and adviser to NASA since the 1950's, briefed the Apollo astronauts before their flights to the Moon, and was an experimenter on the Mariner, Viking, Voyager, and Galileo expeditions to the planets. He helped solve the mysteries of the high temperatures of Venus (answer: massive greenhouse effect), the seasonal changes on Mars (answer: windblown dust), and the reddish haze of Titan (answer: complex organic molecules). For his work, Dr. Sagan received the NASA medals for Exceptional Scientific Achievement and (twice) for Distinguished Public Service, as well as the NASA Apollo Achievement Award. Asteroid 2709 Sagan is named after him. He was also awarded the John F. Kennedy Astronautics Award of the America ...
voyager interstellar message In the annals of exploration, the achievements of the two Voyager spacecraft are unprecedented. The piddling journeys of Columbus and Magellan spanned a few tens of thousands of miles on the watery surface of one small world. Voyagers 1 and 2 have traveled billions of miles through the ocean of space, exploring dozens of new worlds along the way and revolutionizing our knowledge of the Solar System in which we live. And as a gift of the brilliant mission design, these robot ships are no longer bound by the Sun's gravity. They have passed the outermost planets and are on their way to the cold, dark near-vacuum that constitutes interstellar space. Nothing can stop them. Their radio transmitters are unlikely to work beyond the year 2020. Thereafter, they will wander silently and forever in the realm of the stars. Who knows who's out there? Perhaps the rest of the Milky Way Galaxy is populated by desolate, wasteland worlds circling a hundred billion stars. Or maybe the Galaxy is r ...
December 20, 2012 Dear Friends of Carl, It’s been four years; way too long. I wanted to reach out to you tonight to share some thoughts about Carl on this sixteenth anniversary of his death. His absence remains more real, more palpable than the presence of others. I am most proud of the fact that for the two decades we were together, we loved each other with a constant appreciation of our great good fortune to have found each other in the immensity of space and time. A week or so ago I found myself visiting Wikipedia. As so many times before, a banner appeared across the top requesting a contribution. This time my conscience was sufficiently aroused to actually do something. I made a donation and immediately received an automatic response from a Sue Gardner of the Wikimedia Foundation. It was a gracious form letter thank you, but something in the fourth paragraph jumped out at me: “You should know: your donation isn't just covering your own costs. The average donor is paying for his or her own use of ...
We find many things to worry and stress about, in our busy modern day to day lives. I was reading Carl Sagan's billions and billions last nite (his last, and a brilliant book by all accounts). In one of the chapters he mentions that it is estimated, on average, 40,000 children under the age of five die everyday worldwide from hunger and preventable diseases. 40,000... every single day. Kind of put's things in perspective a bit. Appreciation is a very hard thing to grasp in the cotton wrapped culture we live in. A reminder like that shines a little light on it!
“If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
CARL SAGAN DEATH VISION!! (if this works on everyone's computer)
Little Free Libraries spread across city, world
A pair of newly discovered stars is the third-closest star system to the Sun and the closest discovered since 1916. At 6.5 light years, it is so close that Earth's television transmissions from 2006 are now arriving there. It is an excellent hunting ground for planets because it is very close to Ear...
A wise man once told me that he believed the only way the human race would ultimately survive is if we learn to live off of this planet, as it can't go on forever.I'm inclined to believe him, but I'm not sure who said it first, him, or Carl Sagan.
What do you do when things happen that have never happened before? In astrophysics, the answer to this question was always "you find out more as you speculate and conclude what is happening around us." Not any more. We've now had so many near misses by astroids (one hit) and a comet that it boggles the astrophysical mind. Or should. No comment. Little bitty articles about *** hum, another four or five good sized misses over the past few days. I repeat. We have never had this kind of astroid or comet activity together. What is going on and why will they not even allow this question in mainstream media.much less speculating an answer?
A short video with the voice of Carl Sagan, describing the size of the Universe and our place in it. What is shown in this video is what makes up the 'known'...
Have a delima. I have a speech coming up and it has to be a tribute speech about anyone real or fiction, past or present. And I'm stuck on whether I want to do Carl Sagan or Doctor Who.
We are often inspired by quotes and pictures if you were to write an inspirational quote what would you write?
Carl Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, talked about his death, their immense love and the afterlife. I think you can love someone the most when you both are aware of the fact that there is no second life, its all here and now. You can give and receive all your love while you exist in the life form for a tin...
Thinking bout a multi genre mix with lots of stuff from late 90s till now ... CLUBBERS guide to the galaxy ... Kinda wanna do it all live in ableton ... Hmmm .. Another one for the list ;)
"We have to be willing to challenge, because we are in desperate need of change." - Carl Sagan
Beautiful. "The cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff, we are a way for the cosmos to know itself." -Carl Sagan
Another great Carl Sagan quote, paired with a great image -
Carl Sagan was kinda a dork in some ways but in others he shone! And was a wise man.
Carl Sagan and Scott Sigler, albeit for different reasons, rock.
It's been 3 days since my last FB confessional Father and I'm still seeing dead people.
Alzheimer's disease is the leading cause of dementia among the elderly, and with the ever-increasing size of this population, cases of Alzheimer's disease are expected to triple over the next 50 years. Consequently, the development of treatments that slow or halt the disease progression have become…
By: Mike Wall Published: 03/08/2013 10:09 AM EST on SPACE.com Life's building blocks can form in the harsh environment of deep space, a new study suggests, bolstering the odds that a comet or meteorite strike may have jump-started biological evolution on Earth. Linked pairs of amino acids called d...
We are so anxious at this sinful nation spreading lies about us. We do not come in machines, we do not land on your earth in machines ... We come like the wind. We are Life Force. Life Force from the ground ... Come here ... We are but a breath away ... a breath away ... we are not a million miles a...
Algae-like structures inside a Sri Lankan meteorite are clear evidence of panspermia, the idea that life exists throughout the Universe, say astrobiologists
Carl Sagan and the Bee Gees had it right: it's all about Staying Alive (soundtrack album)!
I love you Carl Sagan. You truly had a "beautiful mind."
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Carl Sagan was a genius who saw the future clearly.
"Alexandria was the greatest city the Western world had ever seen. People of all nations came here to live, to trade, to learn. On any given day, its harbors were thronged with merchants, scholars, and tourists. This was a city where Greeks, Egyptians, Arabs, Syrians, Hebrews, Persians, Nubians, Phoenicians, Italians, Gauls, and Iberians exchanged merchandise and ideas. It is probably here that the word 'cosmopolitan' realized its true meaning - citizen, not just of a nation, but of the Cosmos. To be a citizen of the Cosmos." - Carl Sagan, Cosmos.
So my project for 2013 is to see how many movies I can watch within the year. I'm going to strive for 300 but my ultimate goal is 365, I have the movies to do it just maybe not the time. They will be both movies that are new to me and ones I am simply rewatching...
Today EA releases DLC for Battlefield 3 where you get to play as Papa John and go back in time and kill Carl Sagan.
Well, the "Dog Whisperer" was great! The dinner at Porter's Pub was great! The company was great! I never got to sleep til after 1 a.m. What a night we all had. For me, it was right up there with seeing William Shatner and Carl Sagan. Junior, Cesar's pit bull, was a scene stealer. The man was funny, entertaining and informative! The placed was packed!
Our alphabet is good.It is applicable with the same success, first of all in Egyptian monuments of the epoch of the Romans and, which is more interesting to the inscriptions on all temples, palaces and tombs of the Pharaonic epoch."Champollion was overwhelmed by the grandeur which surrounded him. "It is the union," he said of grace and majesty in the highest degree.We in Europe are only dwafts.No nation, ancient or modern, has conceived the art of architecture on such a sublime,great and imposing style as the ancient Egyptians. They ordered everything to be done for people who are 100 feet high." ---Carl Sagan on Champollion & the Rosetta Stone
"This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. They care only about the time they are in power" [Carl Sagan]
This quote from Carl Sagan has been making the rounds lately (Google+, Wil Wheaton, Brain Pickings, etc.), but it’s an excellent quote that deserves to be repeated. This excerpt was taken from the 11th episode of Sagan’s 1980s Cosmos series, titled “The Persistence of Memory” (which I’ve posted bel...
The Physics of Extraterrestrial Civilizations How advanced could they possibly be? The late Carl Sagan once asked this question, “What does it mean for a civilization to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilization is a few hundred years old… an advanced civilization millions of years old is as much beyond us as we are beyond a bush baby or a macaque.” Although any conjecture about such advanced civilizations is a matter of sheer speculation, one can still use the laws of physics to place upper and lower limits on these civilizations. In particular, now that the laws of quantum field theory, general relativity, thermodynamics, etc. are fairly well-established, physics can impose broad physical bounds which constrain the parameters of these civilizations. This question is no longer a matter of idle speculation. Soon, humanity may face an existential shock as the current list of a dozen Jupiter-sized extra-solar planets swells to hun ...
Final Version, customized for th Jubilee! Community. This video is an homage to Carl Sagan and a tribute to the gift of perspective. See credits for source material-…
I don't know what this indicates but as an atheist ,if I stub my toe I shout " Jesus Christ". Not once have I heard a religious pal yell" Carl Sagan"
"The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand." - Carl Sagan Einstein said: “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” How true, this statement. If we no longer can gaze out into the cosmos without standing rapt in awe, what else is there to do? Recently, we’ve seen the cancellation of the new lunar program, and the termination of the Shuttle missions. I wonder; will the age of manned space exploration end with the current generation? I hope not. I’ve developed an interest in all things that have to do with space and the cosmos, and I for one would want to see many of these mysteries solved. ...
.“At this moment, we face a critical branch-point in our history. What we do with our world, right now, will propagate down through the centuries and powerfully affect the destiny of our descendants. It is well within our power to destroy our civilization, and perhaps our species as well. If we capitulate to superstition, or greed, or stupidity we can plunge our world into darkness deeper than the time between the collapse of classical civilization and the Italian Renaissance. But, we are also capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth, to make an abundant and meaningful life for every inhabitant of this planet” Carl Sagan..
I'm feeling the same way from watching videos of Bill Nye, Carl Sagan, and Lawrence Krauss.
Though a well-regarded physicist Carl Sagan (1934-1996) is best-known as a writer of popular nonfiction and science fiction and as the host of the PBS series Cosmos. Through his writings and spoken commentary, he worked to popularize interests in astronomy, the universe, and the possibility of ex...
Give me Carl Sagan, Neil Degrasse Tyson, and Bill Nye over any nice religious folks. Scientists are nice AND they know things!
This was before seatbelts, airbags and crash test dummies. Anyone remember the name of our consumer safety champion?.hint- It wasn't Carl Sagan
So I just read that Seth MacFarlane is co-producing a reboot of Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" (that's incredible to me) AND that he's been "romantically linked" to Amanda Bynes and most-recently Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen on Game of Thrones) . How can one man possess so much Win?
I've been indoctrinated with a certain societal meme all my life and that is - you should respect your elders. I'm turning 26 this month and I must vent this. In my 26 years on this fragile mote of dust(waddup Carl Sagan?) I have encountered what can be termed 'wisdom' and love in the youngest of individuals, and I've encountered ignorance and hatred in the oldest among us. This presents a serious problem as far as I can tell. Is the blind submission to those who have existed longer than you a beneficial mode of behavior? As far as I can tell it is not. This presents a serious dilemma and that is if it is not beneficial to ALWAYS trust your elders, then what is one to do? In my worthless opinion, no specific chronological age is of any relevance whatsoever in our current society of free-flowing information and increasing levels of free-inquiry. Again, then what guideline is one to adhere to? The only age that matters is very specifically - the age of reason. Upon reaching this moment in life when o ...
does not and will never believe in God. He does not willfully and/or purposefully interfere with your right to believe in it. Carl Sagan, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins and Charles Darwin are all awesome. A banana and a broken mousetrap does not a God prove. Atheist is not a bad word. Kirk Cameron is a moron. Evolution happens. The Higgs Boson particle is real. And Intelligent Design is just Creationism wrapped up with a bow. Amen.
As a skeptic, I'm always disappointed to find out that many of my favorite scientists and critical thinkers are hard leftists. Neil Degrasse Tyson, Carl Sagan, Bill Nye, etc. Luckily, while doing a research project on the Indian economy, I came across this piece by Milton Friedman in which he says: "Able mathematicians are usually recognized for their ability at a relatively early age. Realizing their own ability as they do and working in a field of absolutes, tends, in my opinion, to make them dangerous when they apply themselves to economic planning. They produce specific and detailed plans in which they have confidence, without perhaps realizing that economic planning is not the absolute science that mathematics is." - Milton Friedman on the Nehru/Mahalanobis Plan, February 15, 1956.
some of my childhood heroes: Thor Heyerdahl, Carl Sagan, Jacques Cousteau.
Mars and the Mind of Man: Carl Sagan, Ray Bradbury and Arthur C. Clarke in Conversation, 1971 | Brain Pickings
picked up two books this morning, 1945: Red Inferno a little charmer of alternate history in which Stalin attacks America at the end of ww2. I also picked up lone survivor about navy seal Marcus Luttrell. each one is 350+ pages and all I can think about is finishing them so I can start on the other thousand books on my list. hopefully I'll fire through these quickly so I can start reading some Carl Sagan! turn off the TV and open a book.
Karl Stull, a writer who's worked with Carl Sagan and Timothy Leary, is leading today's study group on Fascinating Biographies: Henry Ford
Carl Sagan is awesome. I would gladly make love to his ghost, but he knows better than anyone that ghosts aren't real.
Robert's Poetry Postings: Thirty five years ago this week, my middle brother Thomas was laid rest. They say only the good die young, and I believe this to be true. Thomas was a brilliant, kinetic, young genius ahead of his time. We discovered surfing together in 1973, and fell in love with the sport, instantly. I swear in the years we surfed together, 1973 to 1978, it seemed that the waves were always huge. Life is like that when you are a boy, everything is a big, Mark Twain adventure, larger than life. Thomas seemed to learn things twice as quickly as I did. He spent weeks in the Summer reading Assimov, Carl Sagan, Einstein, Ray Bradbury, and Scientific American. He excelled at math and science and even had a chemistry set. My brother was like a beautiful rainbow after a rainstorm that you wish would stay forever. Thomas was one in a million. I love and miss him still. The following is a poem I wrote about him in August of 2006: Eulogy for brother Thomas 5/01/63 to 2/22/78 When I was a boy My ...
"Wonders of Life" with Professor Brian Cox is our generations Carl Sagan with his "Cosmos" series.
I was enjoying Mama until it misquoted Carl Sagan. 0 stars.
Just wanted to thank everyone that has reached out to me the last few days when you could clearly tell I was going through a rough time.. It's truly appreciated, and means more to me than you will ever know... Thanks for being there for me. Thing will get better whatever the outcome is.. and I'm not scared because I have you all to help! Thanks so much, Gina Soper-Nitz, Tricia Baker, Sarah Webb, Carl Sagan, Ashley Wareham, Shalyn Eastman, Jammie Hall, Rachel Passmore.. your all amazing ladies in my book!!
If you don't like Seth MacFarlane's humor that's fine, we're all entitled to our own opinions. However, if you wish to attack the man's character, watch him speak on behalf of the Planetary Society and realize that his contribution to the scientific community is truly admirable. He's the reason Cosmos is going to reach more people than we could have ever hoped for, enlightening millions more and changing so many lives the way Carl Sagan and the original Cosmos changed mine. That is nothing short of being a force for good and Mr. Macfarlane, I thank you so much for this. This is going to be incredible.
Ray Bradbury and Carl Sagan will make a *** of a team.
Are we alone? We Earthlings have seen no credible signs that there are beings elsewhere in the universe that match us in smarts. Yet are there? Paleontologist Peter Ward, coauthor of Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe, points to evidence that intelligent life must be exceedingly rare. Other scientists, however, think that advanced life is common—Carl Sagan estimated a million intelligent civilizations in our galaxy alone. So NOVA asked astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson to play devil's advocate in a conversation with Ward. ..Time is of the essence Neil Degrasse Tyson: Peter, when you combine the fossil record on Earth with all that we know of biology and evolution, what can we expect as we look for intelligence elsewhere in the cosmos? Peter Ward: There are maybe 30 million species on the planet today—10 to 30 million. If we look at the fossils, there are hundreds of millions of species in the past. And one time on Earth has intelligence arisen to the point where we can build a r ...
Just finished reading this ..WHOA !.Michio is THE MAN ( well he & Brian Greene ) Forget De Grasse High unless you think your High School Physics Teacher is the "end all"..De Grasse is the Dr.Phil of Quantum Mechanics , a TV Personality , the spawn of Carl Sagan ( The Dr.Joyce Brothers of Quantum Physics).Check MICHIO and when you graduate try some Brian Greene or Peter Higgs...THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING, NOTHING IS AS YOU BELIEVE IT TO BE.
I just had a grand revelation. I've recently become pretty enamored with Carl Sagan by way of his series "Cosmos." In 1979 Sagan penned a screenplay imagining humanity's first communication with an extraterrestrial race of superior intelligence and he called it "Contact." No studio picked it up and so he reworked it into a novel and published it to good reviews in 1985. In 1997 the screenplay was revived and finally made into a film starring Jodie Foster and Mathew McConaughey. That was fifteen years ago, and the father of one of my best friends worked for Lucasfilm/ILM audio at that point and when he needed kids' voices for projects he recruited his son's friends. I just put it together: one year after Sagan died in 1996 I did voice work for ILM to produce his screenplay as a film.
Here's a couple of quotes to try out on your wrong-wing stooges or your Fundie stooges, that perhaps they can learn from. Both those groups have their own far-too-trusting mentality, the former that the 1% cares about them, and the latter that the concept of God and religion are not cooked up mythology. And, there is often a lot of overlap in membership of the two groups--and one wonders why. "Open-mindedness is not the same as empty-mindedness. To hang out a sign saying: 'Come right in; there is no one at home.' is not the equivalent of hospitality." -- John Dewey "It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out." -- Carl Sagan
I know we all share a passion for all things Gemmell but I'd like to share my top 10 favourite books (of any genre that's not Gemmell) 1. 48 Laws of Power by Robert Green (The making of England series by Bernard Cornwell (The Mongol series by Conn Iggulden (James Barclays Chronicles of the Raven (Game Of Throne series by George R. R. Martin (The Lord of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (The Art Of War by Sun Tsu (Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson (Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan (Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (are just some of many, many books and authors I love. Please feel free to share your own.
Quotations from Carl Sagan and rainbows in oil puddles are only the tip of the iceberg with this show. Visual notes to help you find ways in and remember.
Debunking Dawkins: The God Delusion Chapter 1: A deeply religious non believer In his first chapter, Dawkins introduces us to the target of his book- theistic belief in a personal God. He does this is a round about way, primarily using the "beliefs" of Albert Einstein as an example. Einstein was at most a deist (one who believes God created the universe, but does not interact with it) or a pantheist (one who ascribes to "God" everything that exists in the universe). The title of the chapter, "A deeply religious non believer" is a partial quote from Albert Einstein, who described his "religion" as an awe of nature and its "magnificent structure." The main thrust of the chapter is that science deserves respect (which is doesn't get) whereas religion deserves little or no respect (which it receives). Deserved Respect The god of religions is a "little god" In attempting to prove his point that religions are stupid, Dawkins quotes Carl Sagan in Pale Blue Dot: "How is it that hardly any major religion has looke ...
Why was I not born Carl Sagan? The wonder and inquisitive nature of that guy never ceases to amaze me.
Thank you, Myers-Briggs, for not only making me feel alone in the world, but also like a heartless, unemotional biotch. And thank you grad program, for forcing me to do research that made me come to this realization. My one saving grace, according to the last blurb, is that I should eventually be rich and famous. My Myers-Briggs Personality: ENTJ - The Commander ENTJ is one of the least common types in the population, and the rarest type among women. ENTJs make up: •2% of the general population •3% of men •1% of women Famous ENTJs include Margaret Thatcher, Bill Gates, Napoleon Bonaparte, Carl Sagan, General Norman Schwarzkopf, David Letterman, Douglas MacArthur, Harrison Ford, and Quentin Tarantino.
Carl Sagan and Bob Saget are like the two people i get messed up on their names a lot
Today I learned: Ron "Gangam Style" Paul is literally Carl Sagan and the Harlem Shake.
is a picture of Earth. Our planet. The place we live and call home. It was taken nearly 4 BILLION (4,000,000,000) miles away by the Voyager 1 spacecraft as it left our Solar System in 1990. I find this image profound in the context of our current human struggle. How big our world appears to us, yet how truly small it is in the grand cosmic reality of things. Carl Sagan was so moved by this image it inspired him to spit these truths in regards to it: "From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. 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, e ...
My first exposure to science fiction (and fantasy and horror): I saw the Animated Star Trek: BEYOND THE FARTHEST STAR at age four. I was so blown out by the science fictional concept and the weird alien ship that I was hooked. Then I saw that there was a live action show (Devil in the Dark) and it sealed the deal. I was drawn to the characters, the aliens and the technology, and the bright primary colors! I was also watching Ultraman and Marvel and DC superhero cartoons. Then I moved onto comic books and novels, Chiller Theater and B Movies, and then Star Wars, Famous Monsters, Starlog, Conan, Tomb Of Dracula, Omni Magazine, Weird Tales and Heavy Metal and Moebius and on and on. I grew to appreciate Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison, Stephen King and Clive Barker, and Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan. And the real life space program that accomplished so much, I refuse to grow up. My imagination keeps me alive. Working on my graphic novel makes me feel like a kid, bubbling with an enthusiasm that I thought I lost ...
GOOFY BUT I MUST SAY: There are several things I must do on a daily basis to function properly. You know things like go to work when I am supposed to, brush my teeth, read God's Word, Worship the Lord, think about my wife (about 100 times a day), talk to my kiddos (if they are not mad at me) and at least once a day watch 30 minutes of The Big Bang Theory. What can I say it makes me laugh. A lot! I mean just in the few episodes I caught last night- Sheldon was getting advice from his Mister Spock doll (voiced by Leonard Nimoy) and Sheldon told his room mate and Penny- "My Mister Spock doll told me to do the right thing and I defied him" Then Sheldon was going to meet Stephen Hawking and Leonard, his room mate said- "great another restraining order to put along side the one he has from Carl Sagan, Leonard Nimoy and Stan Lee." Then the crew was getting ready to go to Howard's wedding reception and Sheldon says- "Why can't you guys just take a page out of the Bilbo Baggins handbook on weddings- put on the ...
thank Peter Ustinov, he and Carl Sagan were like the David Attenborough of space during my childhood :-)
authors like Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, Neil Shubin, Carl Sagan and Sean B, Carroll for a more in depth study.
A Cosmic Pastoral: Diane Ackerman's poems for the planets, which Carl Sagan sent Timothy Leary in prison
On this day in 1974, Carl Sagan sent Timothy Leary a letter in prison – and it included this beautiful cosmic poetry
My Sick At Home Movie List Star Wars Trilogies: all 6... sure why not? But being sick won't make Episodes 1 and 2 any better. Indiana Jones series: The only really... REALLY good one is Raiders..., but it alone makes up for where the others fall short. If you miss the 4th one (Crystal Skull) all together, you're not missing much. Mad Max Trilogy: 1 and 2 never get boring and don't even think about getting the first one with subtitles. It's English with Aussie accents, deal with it. BBC's Wonders of the Solar System and Wonders of the Universe ft. Prof. Brian Cox: Awesome in every sense of the word. Even if documentaries aren't your thing, these are sure to impress. Up there with Carl Sagan's Cosmos. Kill Bill parts 1&2: My idea what a chic flick should be. That's as far as I've gotten. Now to watch a Leafs game. Hockey almost always makes me feel better, even when we lose. It just brings out the fighting spirit in me, I guess. GO LEAFS!
You don't usually get to talk about Stephen Hawkins, Richard Dawkins, Brian Cox, David Attenborough, Carl Sagan etc in the same lecture.
"Science is still one of my chief joys. The popularization of science that Isaac Asimov did so well-the communication not just of the findings but of the methods of science-seems to me as natural as breathing. After all, when you're in love, you want to tell the world. The idea that scientists shouldn't talk about their science to the public seems to me bizarre." - Carl Sagan
An homage to Carl Sagan's Cosmos episode "Blues for a Red Planet"?
POPE LEO Xlll VISION OF 1884 Go back into history – all the way to 1884. In 1884 Pope Leo the 13th had a vision while saying Mass at St. Peters Basilica in Rome. He saw Satan and Christ talking. Satan said, “I can destroy your Church. – But I need more time and more power over those who are willing to give themselves over to me. Christ said, “How much time?” “100 years” Christ said, “You have it.” As many of you know this frightened St. Leo so much that he order the prayer to St. Michael said in all the Masses throughout the world. That was October 13th, 1884. Pope Leo 13th then consecrated the whole world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. He then created the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. SATAN's 100 YEARS OF POWER Before 1884 the Masons set up the Encyclopedia Britannia to distort history and to make all religion look unscientific. They tried the French Revolution in 1778. Naturalism was already in the world, Carl Sagan's Materialism, Voltaire's population vs. food supply, Rousseau (b ...
Richard Feynman, Richard Dawkins, Carl Sagan, look them up. You can start by simply looking up. God doesn't want us on our knees.
"These are the missing practical arguments: safeguarding the Earth from otherwise inevitable catastrophic impacts and hedging our bets on the many other threats, known and unknown, to the environment that sustains us. Without these arguments, a compelling case for sending humans to Mars and elsewhere might be lacking, But with them—and the buttressing arguments involving science, education, perspective, and hope—I think a strong case can be made. If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds." - Carl Sagan, "Pale Blue Dot"
The incident over the Urals in Russia today allows me to repeat/paraphrase an observation I heard made by Carl Sagan years ago on a talk show. An incident in the sky occurred today and already many videos have been posted recording it. Why is it, with something like 60 years of supposed sightings, are there yet no clear undisputed film or video recordings of UFO's? Especially now, when a good portion of our cell phones are video cameras?
I found Carl Sagan's Cosmos on Youtube.. It's still good. He's like Prof Brian Cox without the "look at that star it's brilliant".. stuff
I had a dream Anjelica Huston convinced Carl Sagan's wife to leave him.
"Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark." ~Carl Sagan
I love Carl Sagan, he was a brilliant scientist and I love that he endorsed the use of Marijuana as a recreational drug. This account was written in 1969 for publication in Marihuana Reconsidered (1971). Sagan was in his mid-thirties at that time. He continued to use cannabis for the rest of his life. It all began about ten years ago. I had reached a considerably more relaxed period in my life - a time when I had come to feel that there was more to living than science, a time of awakening of my social consciousness and amiability, a time when I was open to new experiences. I had become friendly with a group of people who occasionally smoked cannabis, irregularly, but with evident pleasure. Initially I was unwilling to partake, but the apparent euphoria that cannabis produced and the fact that there was no physiological addiction to the plant eventually persuaded me to try. My initial experiences were entirely disappointing; there was no effect at all, and I began to entertain a variety of hypotheses about ...
The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world. - Carl Sagan "The best hemp and the best tobacco grown on the same kind of soil. The former article is of first necessity to the commerce and marine, in other words to the wealth and protection of the country. The latter, never useful and sometimes pernicious, derives its estimation from caprice." - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U.S. President, Jefferson's journal entry / March 16, 1791 "Some of my finest hours have been spent on the back of my veranda, smoking hemp and observing as far as the eye can see." - Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President "If the words "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on." - Terence McKenna "We are confronted primarily wi ...
Carl Sagan and the Dali Lama discussing the possibilities of what all this may actually mean . . .
Thank you, pseudo-intellectuals, for quoting Carl Sagan and Neil Degrasse Tyson non-stop. Also thanks for trying to argue with EVERYONE about EVERYTHING science or religion related. I know these are extremely complex issues that people have spent most of their lives studying and working on, but yeah, reading a couple pages on Reddit and Wikipedia puts you pretty much on the same level as these people. I know you say you were, "too creative to pursue my love of science, (that by the way I developed after my freshman year of college because I watched The Cosmos for the first time!)", but I think you just aren't that smart. Or maybe you're lazy. Either way, no body cares how long your genius stick is. Get a job and quit trying to stir up trouble on a website that most people come to to procrastinate on their CE Presentations project that they should be working on.
"Parents at an Indiana high school want a 'traditional' prom--no *** allowed." Yeah, well, I want half a billion dollars and for Carl Sagan to stop being dead, but I guess I'm just going to have to suffer. "Their idea is to create a separate...traditional prom. Students say there are several others from their high school who agree, but are afraid to take a stand." They should be. Am I in the wrong for looking forward to the day when all bigots--or at least the overwhelming majority--hesitate to air their hatred for fear of long-term repercussions...or just being the spade that gets correctly and publicly identified as one? In the meantime, I'm pretty sure the Westboro Baptist Church has facilities they can borrow. "'We want to make the public see that we love the homosexuals, but we don't think it's right nor should it be accepted,' said a local student." TRANSLATION: Try to focus on my big fake smile while I'm stabbing you in the heart. "'So the same goes for *** Do you think they have a purpose in l ...
For those of you who are bummed that you never got to meet Carl Sagan, Guess what. Stan Lee and Patrick Stewart are still alive! FIND THEM.
sagansense: Sagan & Swan’s Voyager Mars Landing Sites (1965) Until the 1980s, most U.S. automated space explorers bore names connoting ventures into unknown parts – Explorer, Pioneer, Ranger, Surveyor, Mariner, and Voyager. Most people today identify the last of these names with the spectacularly successful pair of outer Solar System flyby spacecraft launched in the late 1970s. There was, however, an earlier Voyager program. First proposed in 1960 as a follow-on to the planned Mariner planetary flyby program, the original Voyager aimed to explore Venus and (especially) Mars using orbiters and landing capsules. Carl Sagan, an assistant professor of astronomy at Harvard, and Paul Swan, Senior Project Scientist at Avco Corporation, published results of a study of possible Voyager Mars landing sites in the January-February 1965 issue of Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. For their study, they invoked a Voyager design Avco had developed in 1963 on contract to NASA Headquarters. The “split-payload” desi ...
Congratulations Joe Naff! You are today's giveaway winner! You were selected at random from others who also provided the name of the person in the picture along with reasons as to why the person could be considered a modern day "Renaissance Man". To receive your prize, email your address and phone number to mattanswer was: "Seth MacFarlane. He is not only a brilliant writer, but also a gifted actor both live and in voice alone. His talents have allowed him to cross genres from comedy to action and even a recent delving into the world of science with his reboot of Carl Sagan's "Cosmos". MacFarlane beautifully crafts mediums of entertainment that can be both childishly silly and still striking a special chord in the soul of his audience. For as crude and low-brow as his shows can be, they also carry with them an intelligence that is nearly unrivaled, even in mediums that attempt to flaunt such attributes." Check the page again tomorrow for another giveaway! Huzzah!
Wow! Timothy Leary and Carl Sagan were friends and intellectual allies-- and Leary planned a "Cosmos" for inner space!
Carl Sagan riding a dinosaur, holding a lightsaber, in space. Print by Lauren Crawford:
If I could sit down at the pub with any three people, they'd be Friedrich Nietzsche, Oscar Wilde and Carl Sagan. Mark Twain, Hunter S. Thompson and some of the founding fathers are all runner-ups.
Last night I had a dream that Carl Sagan was directing a choir in church robes on a concrete island in the middle of a busy intersection.
Cosmos (1980) is a popular science book by astronomer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Sagan. Its 13 illustrated chapters, corresponding to the 13 episodes of the Cosmos TV series on which the book was based, explore the mutual development of science and civilization. Spurred in part by the po...
An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no God. By some definitions, atheism is very stupid. Carl Sagan
at last i solved the mystery that why did the chicken crossed the road ;) Albert Einstein: The chicken did not cross the road. The road passed beneath the chicken. Isaac Newton: Chickens at rest tend to stay at rest. Chickens in motion tend to cross roads. Wolfgang Pauli: There was already a chicken on this side of the road. Carl Sagan: There are billions and billions of such chickens, crossing roads just like this one, all across the universe. [Apologies for perpetuating the misquote.] Jean-Dernard-Leon Foucault: What’s interesting is that if you wait a few hours, it will be crossing the road a few inches back that way. Robert Van de Graaf: Hey, doesn’t it look funny with all its feathers sticking up like that? Albert Michelson and Edward Morley: Our experiment was a failure. We could not detect the road. Ludwig Boltzmann: If you have enough chickens, it is a near certainty that one of them will cross the road. Johannes van der Waals: Some say it was a sixth sense that led the chicken to cross the ro ...
Celebrating Black History Month... "People That Made America Great" Neil Degrasse Tyson born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist and science communicator. He is currently the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space and a research associate in the department of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History. From 2006 to 2011 he hosted the educational science television show NOVA ScienceNow on PBS and has been a frequent guest on The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Real Time with Bill Maher, and Jeopardy!. It was announced on August 5, 2011, that Tyson will be hosting a new sequel to Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage television series. Tyson was born as the second of three children in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, but was raised in the Bronx.[1] His mother, Sunchita Feliciano Tyson, was a gerontologist, and his father, Cyril deGrasse Tyson, was a sociologist, human resource commissioner for the New York City mayor Jo . ...
I often confuse the name Karl Rove with Carl Sagan.
“As a newly minted Ph.D., I actually thought going to the moon had something centrally to do with science. But the President did not talk about discovering the origin of the Moon, or even about bringing samples of it back for study. All he seemed to be interested in was sending someone there and bringing him home. It was a kind of gesture. ” Carl Sagan
Phil Zimmermann wants to save you from your phone - Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.If you want to know what Phil Zimmermann’s about, this quote from Mahatma Gandhi might be a good place to start. Zimmermann picked it up during his earlier days as an anti-nuclear activist, during which he’d once been arrested along with astronomer Carl Sagan, actor Martin Sheen, and Pentagon Papers-leaker Daniel Ellsberg. And when, in 1991, h...
"Our global civilization is clearly on the edge of failure and the most important task it faces, preserving the lives and well-being of its citizens and the future habitability of the planet. But if we're willing to live with the growing likelihood of nuclear war shouldn't we also been willing to explore vigorously every possible means to prevent nuclear war. Shouldn't we consider in every nation major changes in the traditional ways of doing things, a fundamental restructuring of economic political social and religious institutions. We've reached a point where there can be no more special interests or special cases, nuclear arms threaten every person on the Earth. Fundamental changes in society are sometimes labelled impractical or contrary to human nature, as if nuclear war were practical or as if there's only one human nature. But fundamental changes can clearly be made, we're surrounded by them. In the last two centuries abject slavery which was with us for thousands of years has almost entirely been ...
Watching Carl Sagan at 5 in the morning makes you wonder about what the future has in-store for us
MASONARY! Yo, sometimes the road to the truth is, so elusive it's confusin And reality becomes illusion If I showed the masses where we was at or where we was goin I'd shatter the social balance of the world as we know it I'm talkin bout the grand deception, of 1947 When our souls were sold to the heavens for technologically advanced weapons Crystal enhanced, brain implants, and mind control methods MJ-12 is not majestic And the focal point of our problems on this planet are not domestic You can accept it or be stupid and be a skeptic and fail to recognize the secret society's deathwish Ninety-seven percent of our Presidents were Masons Responsible for launderin trillions of dollars from the nation for the construction of underground military installations Abductions and cattle mutilations Experiments on human patients can take place in several subterranean bases A hundred and fifty stories below a basement With knowledge of genetic information, you need to fear science not Satan Cause through the manipul ...
“In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.” -- Carl Sagan
On page 302 of 509 of Intelligent Life in the Universe, by Carl Sagan
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, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out. ~ Carl Sagan
BBC's Wonders shows are so good. I 'wonder' whether will be involved with the new version of Carl Sagan's Cosmos? Hope so!
Just showed Carl Sagan's 'Pale Blue Dot' speech to and I don't think she was sufficiently impressed. Moving out.
"Science is way of thinking much more then it is a body of knowledge" - Carl Sagan
The Meaning of Life Without God by Aristopus March 7th, 2009 If humanity is going to continue to evolve, the traditional orthodox religions must be dismissed as indefensible mythology. Religion has kept us in the Dark Ages long enough. The time has finally come because nature has been strained to her limits. She is at carrying capacity right now. Religions continue to encourage runaway population growth at exponential rates such that millions die of starvation and preventable diseases every year. War is no longer a feasible answer to population control. Even worse, religion indoctrinates subjects to believe that the world is coming to an end, so it doesn’t matter what we do to Gaia, she’s a lost cause anyway. The endmeme (see my video on the “endmeme” on Youtube) is the most dangerous and treacherous idea to ever escape from Pandora’s Box. How can we hope to survive when the vast majority of the Earth’s citizens believe God’s wrath hangs over us like the Sword of Damocles? All human beings a ...
Professor Carl Sagan,* indirectly, he is my teacher of cosmology science, historian, teacher of moral, teacher of mental developer and inspirator of me... * Author of: -Cosmos -Pale Blue Dot
Who are we ? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people . Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan continues to inspire me. Just watched episode 7 of his Cosmos series.
Carl Sagan had a foreboding prediction of our world if superstition was embraced as reality. This is why we Fight. 🎯
" We must all help one another or all perish together."-Carl Sagan
"There are hundred billion galaxies, and a billion trillion stars. Why should this modest planet be the only inhabited world?" -Carl Sagan
Im third quarter threw a new six pack of Blue Moon. How many are left?
Oh Carl Sagan I wish you were still here.
And now finally I may sail on the ship of dreams. Goodnight! “Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.” ~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Thank you. I'd forgotten what a beautiful man Carl Sagan was.
"But the Bible says..." Whoa, whoa, whoa - stop right there. I don't give a good god *** what your religious text says - we live in reality, not a Harry Potter book, the Bible, the Qur'an, the Bhagavad Gita or any other book of mythology. You can pretend to live in Homer's Odyssey or Sleeping Beauty for all I care, but don't think for a second that other people should take your preferred book of mythological tripe as reality or as having any kind of authority. ~
- the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.' (Carl Sagan, Cosmos)
“That same rocket and nuclear and computer technology that sends our ships past the farthest known planet, can also be used to destroy our global civilization. Exactly the same technology can be used for good or for evil. It is as if, there were a God who said to us, "I set before you, two ways; you can use your technology to destroy yourselves, or to carry yourself to the planets and the stars; it's up to you."” — Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Carl Sagan~ Where we have strong emotions were liable to fool ourselves.
Well I supposed Ive embraced the inner nerd, because I am pirating audio books by Carl Sagan and Michio Kaku. Tomorrow at work I will be plunging toilets with my body, but plunging the universe of all its secrets with my mind and ears.
"Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable" -Carl Sagan
Atheist say the word "science" and claim it as their own because it's fashionable, but 99% don't give a *** about science except whatever they hear from Carl Sagan or Family Guy. I'm not big into science but when I am I am doing something fun like learning to make gun powder, not listening to some sadistic gas bags talk about the creation of the universe like they were there. I'd rather see a meteor shower now then believe that a random explosion created everything and everyone I see.
You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep-seated need to believe. -- Carl Sagan
My grandfather also loved Carl Sagan. So where is the veterans memorial dedicated to that?
"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." -Carl Sagan" This is one of my favorite quotes I have ever come across and it really speaks to an essential idea to my life and one I feel more people should incorporate into their lives. So often people conduct themselves based on delusions about people, the world around them and the universe at large. This can lead to a disconnected and incorrect worldview that affects everything you do in your life from day to day. If you ignore the true inner workings of the world and the universe that so influences your life then you absolutely cannot be successful in your pursuit of knowledge or true happiness. If you life with a veil over your eyes you can see what is truly worth being happy about and you may often ignore the things that you should really be focusing your life on. I, for one, believe that the pursuit of knowledge and understanding is one of the most important facets of life and i ...
This quote by Carl Sagan certainly puts in all into perspective...
Tomorrow in class, Carl Sagan (the Mr. Rodgers of 1980s public-television science) will inform us about awesome things.
Because me and Jordan talked about Carl Sagan for a little bit im re watching
Someone stole 78 cents and a copy of Carl Sagan's cosmos from my truck. If you want to steal some knowledge, be my guest, I don't lock it
A new consciousness . sees the Earth as a single organism & realizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed - Carl Sagan
In a personal observation, I have discovered that every time I am reminded of the fact that Carl Sagan is no longer with us, it literally hurts.
" No matter where on Earth we live, no matter what our language, customs, or politics, we share a sky in common. " - Carl Sagan.
Carl Sagan with a model of the Viking Lander. Photo via Wikipedia I miss Carl Sagan. Sagan's enthusiasm for science and his knack for translating difficult scientific concepts into simple explanations that many can understand, made him a popular figure. He was an ambassador for science, if you will,...
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves. || Carl Sagan
“Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation” Carl Sagan
He's closer to Carl Sagan, it's a striking resemblance
Is it just me or does Squad kinda look like an elegant mix between Carl Sagan and Mr. Rogers?
Carl Sagan would have been proud, and mindblown at the same time
Carl Sagan was denied tenure at Harvard. The perils of making your discipline matter to the larger world
Will the real Carl Sagan please stand up?
"Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” ― Carl Sagan
Our Solar System consists of one star and some debris. ~~~ Carl Sagan
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers. ~Carl Sagan
One of the greatest gifts adults can give--to their offspring and to their society--is to read to children." - Carl Sagan”
Sagan study/tribute. Carl rules everything around me, C.R.E.A.M, get the money, dolla' dolla' bill y'all.
if Carl Sagan had knuckle tats they would be WHOA WHAT
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