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Submission: On January 13 via manual (January 13th 2023, 8:32:46 pm UTC) from US — Scanned from DE

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CARL SAGAN


Born
in New York, The United States
November 09, 1934

Died
December 20, 1996

Website
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Genre
Science, Nonfiction, Philosophy

Influences
Robert Ingersoll, Julian Huxley, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Ann Druyan, D Robert
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In 1934, scientist Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. After earning bachelor
and master's degrees at Cornell, Sagan earned a double doctorate at the
University of Chicago in 1960. He became professor of astronomy and space
science and director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell
University, and co-founder of the Planetary Society. A great popularizer of
science, Sagan produced the PBS series, "Cosmos," which was Emmy and Peabody
award-winning, and was watched by 500 million people in 60 countries. A book of
the same title came out in 1980, and was on The New York Times bestseller list
for 7 weeks. Sagan was author, co-author or editor of 20 books, including The
Dragons of Eden (1977), which won a Pulitzer, Pale Blue Dot (1 In 1934,
scientist Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. After earning bachelor and
master's degrees at Cornell, Sagan earned a double doctorate at the University
of Chicago in 1960. He became professor of astronomy and space science and
director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University, and
co-founder of the Planetary Society. A great popularizer of science, Sagan
produced the PBS series, "Cosmos," which was Emmy and Peabody award-winning, and
was watched by 500 million people in 60 countries. A book of the same title came
out in 1980, and was on The New York Times bestseller list for 7 weeks. Sagan
was author, co-author or editor of 20 books, including The Dragons of Eden
(1977), which won a Pulitzer, Pale Blue Dot (1995) and The Demon-Haunted World:
Science As a Candle in the Dark (1996), his hardest-hitting on religion. With
his wife, Ann Druyan, he was co-producer of the popular motion picture,
"Contact," which featured a feminist, atheist protagonist played by Jodie Foster
(1997). The film came out after Sagan's death, following a 2-year struggle with
a bone marrow disease. Sagan played a leading role in NASA's Mariner, Viking,
Voyager, and Galileo expeditions to other planets. Ann Druyan, in the epilogue
to Sagan's last book, Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the
Brink of the Millennium (published posthumously in 1997), gives a moving account
of Carl's last days: "Contrary to the fantasies of the fundamentalists, there
was no deathbed conversion, no last minute refuge taken in a comforting vision
of a heaven or an afterlife. For Carl, what mattered most was what was true, not
merely what would make us feel better. Even at this moment when anyone would be
forgiven for turning away from the reality of our situation, Carl was
unflinching. As we looked deeply into each other's eyes, it was with a shared
conviction that our wondrous life together was ending forever."

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 American Astronautical
Society, the Explorers Club 75th Anniversary Award, the Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Medal of the Soviet Cosmonauts Federation, and the Masursky Award of the
American Astronomical Society, ("for his extraordinary contributions to the
development of planetary science…As a scientist trained in both astronomy and
biology, Dr. Sagan has made seminal contributions to the study of planetary
atmospheres, planetary surfaces, the history of the Earth, and exobiology. Many
of the most productive planetary scientists working today are his present and
former students and associates").

He was also a recipient of the Public Welfare Medal, the highest award of the
National Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Sagan was elected Chairman of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the
American Astronomical Society, President of the Planetology Section of the
American Geophysical Union, and Chairman of the Astronomy Section of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science. For twelve years he was the
editor-in-chief of Icarus, the leading professional journal devoted to planetary
research. He was cofounder and President of the Planetary Society, a
100,000-member organization that is the largest space-interest group in the
world; and Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
California Institute of Technology.

In their posthumous award to Dr. Sagan of their highest honor, the National
Science Foundation declared that his "research transformed planetary science…
his gifts to mankind were infinite." D. 1996.

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Cosmos

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Contact
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William Olivier Desmond (Translator)

4.14 avg rating — 135,636 ratings — published 1986 — 124 editions
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
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Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

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Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
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The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
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Ann Druyan (Goodreads Author) (Editor)

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Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science

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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
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Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective
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Jerome Agel (Editor),
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“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan
tags: astronomer, science, writer
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“Look again at 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, every mother and father,
hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt
politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in
the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless
cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely
distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their
misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their
hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors
so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a
fraction of a dot.

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. In our
obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from
elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

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.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience.
There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than
this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility
to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue
dot, the only home we've ever known.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
tags: earth, perspective, space
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“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees
with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find
another.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
tags: humanity, individuality, love, mercy
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