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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
" Describing Earth as a tiny dot in a photo from space, Ann Druyan and Carl Sagan wrote: The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena...
Holden Karnofsky • All Possible Views About Humanity's Future Are Wild
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
- Carl Sagan
“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
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
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom -
Isaac Asimov