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
Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.
Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth.
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition.
Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.
In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.
Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.
The cosmos is all there is, all there ever was, and all there ever will be.
The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths / of exquisite interrelationships / of the awesome machinery of nature
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