Pale blue dot.
For too many, Carl Sagan was just a running joke about "billions and billions." But the man was taken with the giant* scale of the universe. As a thinking man, he couldn't help but have that affect his philosophy.
Take three and a half minutes, and go listen to the simple, profound words of a great thinker whom we lost too early.
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Labels: false pride, LOOK Up in the Sky, musing, science, world view
posted by Matt G @ 5:35 PM
6 Comments:
There is a reason he's the man I consider my personal hero.
Thank you. I didn't know he had died. Somehow, he is coupled with my view of sanity. And the Big Picture.But now I have my own, to which he contributed. Thank you for this.
He died back in 1996. He was 62.
The universe is an amazing place. A regular person will need a lot of help in appreciating just how amazing it is. Mr. Sagan was the man who helped me appreciate it.
Matt, there is a difference between Enormity (big badness), and Enormousness (big bigness).
Oof. And I know and knew the difference!
The shame! How she burns!
Sagan DID do a lot to help science, especially in astrophysics- He was an interesting speaker also.
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