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Carl Sagan, would later speak of reading Interplanetary Flight as the “turning point in my scientific development,”
Robert Stone • Chasing the Moon: How America Beat Russia in the Space Race
Carl Sagan’s more famous ideas (or sound bites): that we are living through humanity’s “technological adolescence,” in possession of new power but not yet possessed of the maturity to wield that power well.
Jaime Green • The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
Sari Azout • 10 things worth sharing this week
“The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science.” - Carl Sagan
(That’s why Carl Sagan said, on his television show Cosmos, “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”) So everything is the cause of everything. Including retroactively
Christopher D. Wallis • Near Enemies of the Truth: Avoid the Pitfalls of the Spiritual Life and Become Radically Free
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millenn... See more
James Clear • 3-2-1: On Seeing Opportunities, Originality, and the Magic of Books | James Clear
Carl Sagan on Man made Climate Change - 1990
youtube.comRocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
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