Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Saganwas an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences. He is best known for his contributions to the scientific research of extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages sent into space: the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth9 November 1934
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery.
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff
There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.
The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.
If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.
We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos.
A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.
Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group.
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.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.