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
The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.
I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It's up to you.
We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.
The visions we offer our children shape the future.
To read is to voyage through time.
That we can now think of no mechanism for astrology is relevant but unconvincing. No mechanism was known, for example, for continental drift when it was proposed by Wegener. Nevertheless, we see that Wegener was right, and those who objected on the grounds of unavailable mechanism were wrong.
Science is a collaborative enterprise, spanning the generations. When it permits us to see the far side of some new horizon, we remember those who prepared the way - seeing for them also.
Your god is too small for my universe.
[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true.
The cosmos is all there is, all there ever was, and all there ever will be.
Nobody listens to mathematicians.
He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.
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.
Any sufficiently crisp question can be answered by a single binary digit-0 or 1, yes or no.