Reads tagged with “Carl Sagan”

Isaac Asimov’s Fan Mail to Young Carl Sagan
“You are my idea of a good writer because you have an unmannered style, and when I read what you write, I hear you talking.”

Carl Sagan on Science and Spirituality
“The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.”

Cosmic Pastoral: Diane Ackerman’s Poems for the Planets, Which Carl Sagan Sent Timothy Leary in Prison
“I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.”

Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot, Animated in Motion Graphics
“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.”

Mars and the Mind of Man: Carl Sagan, Ray Bradbury and Arthur C. Clarke in Cosmic Conversation, 1971
“It’s part of the nature of man to start with romance and build to a reality.”

Carl Sagan on the Meaning of Life
“We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.”

Cosmic Apprentice: Dorion Sagan on Why Science and Philosophy Need Each Other
“A good scientific theory shines its light, revealing the world’s fearful symmetry. And its failure is also a success, as it shows us where to look next.”

The Math of Love: Calculating the Odds of Finding Your Soulmate
The science of why there are roughly 871 special someones for you out there.

Happy Birthday, Voyager 1: An Animated Adaptation of Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot
“The aggregate of our joy and suffering…every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization…every young couple in love…lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”

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