Lessons of Immortality and Mortality From My Father, Carl.
Carl Sagan’s final interview was with Charlie Rose on May 27, 1996, less than seven months before his death. You can see it here. Carl’s daughter, Sasha Sagan, wrote a loving and thoughtful essay in 2014, the 80th anniversary year of his birth. Here, now, are just a few of Carl Sagan’s most memorable quotes.
When your dad is Carl Sagan, your first lessons on death aren’t sugar-coated. But they are nevertheless sweet and compassionate. That’s how Sasha Sagan, Carl’s daughter, describes them in a recent essay in New York. Throughout his career, Carl worked as a science popularizer and as a professor of astronomy and critical thinking. He stayed true to his understanding of the world even in.
Carl Sagan Carl Sagan was American astronomer who popularized science and tried to make it more accessible to the public. Sagan dedicated his whole live in reasearch of areas like astronomy, cosmology, planetary science, space exploration, and the philosophy of science, but he was especially interested in the origin of life on Earth and in the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe.
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space. The astronomer Carl Sagan is one of my intellectual heroes, and one of the great secularists of the twentieth century. In 1989, after both Voyager spacecraft had passed Neptune and Pluto, Sagan wanted a last picture of Earth from “a hundred thousand times” as far away as the famous shots of Earth taken by the Apollo astronauts.
Now that “Cosmos” has made its triumphant return with Neil Degrasse Tyson at the helm, the show’s late originator, Carl Sagan was been on the minds of science fans for weeks. New York Magazine has run a piece from Sagan’s daughter Sasha about what it was like to be raised by the thoughtful, poetic astronomer. The entire essay is well worth a read, but the above quote, which is recalled.
NEW YORK (AP) — Sasha Sagan, daughter of the late Carl Sagan, is working on a book her publisher is calling “part memoir, part guidebook and part social history.” G.P. Putnam’s Sons.
I had dinner with a friend tonight. We discussed science and art. She had a great book that had all kinds of maps made by peoples of the pas.