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Carl Edward Sagan bol americký astronóm, astrofyzik, astrobiológ a popularizátor vedy a kritického myslenia. Bol priekopníkom v exobiológii, experimentálne demonštroval produkciu aminokyselín zo základných chemických prvkov za pomoci radiácie.

Svoju vedeckú dráhu začínal na Harvard University, neskôr až do svojej smrti pôsobil ako profesor astronómie a vesmírnych štúdií na Cornell University, kde okrem iného viedol laboratórium pre planetárne štúdiá. Podieľal sa na viacerých významných projektoch NASA, okrem iného napríklad na programe Apollo a misii Voyager 1.

Počas svojej kariéry publikoval viac ako 600 vedeckých štúdií a vyše 20 kníh, medzi nimi aj knihu Draci z raja za ktorú získal Pulitzerovu cenu.

Je svetovo známy svojimi populárno-vedeckými knihami a televíznymi seriálmi Cosmos, ktorý spoluvytvoril a uvádzal. Napísal aj román Kontakt, podľa ktorého bol v roku 1997 natočený rovnomenný film s Jodie Fosterovou v hlavnej úlohe.

Podporoval program Hľadania extra-terestriálnej inteligencie - SETI.

Je po ňom pomenovaná planétka 2709 Sagan. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. november 1934 – 20. december 1996   •   Ďalšie mená Karl Seýgan
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“If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?”

Carl Sagan kniha The Demon-Haunted World

Zdroj: The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995), Ch. 1 : The Most Precious Thing, p. 12
Zdroj: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Science is, at least in part, informed worship.”

Zdroj: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)

“Those at too great a distance may, I am well aware, mistake ignorance for perspective.”

Introduction (p. 7)
The Dragons of Eden (1977)
Zdroj: Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

“We make our purpose.”

Zdroj: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

“Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.”

Carl Sagan kniha The Demon-Haunted World

"With Science on Our Side" https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1994/01/09/with-science-on-our-side/9e5d2141-9d53-4b4b-aa0f-7a6a0faff845/, Washington Post (January 9, 1994)
Varianta: Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.
Zdroj: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Every thinking person fears nuclear war and every technological nation plans for it. Everyone knows it's madness, and every country has an excuse.”

Carl Sagan kniha Cosmos

17 min 40 sec
Zdroj: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), Who Speaks for Earth? [Episode 13]

“Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.”

Carl Sagan, author interview
PT Staff
Psychology Today
1996
January
01
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199601/carl-sagan?page=3

“Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs — in time, in space, and in potential — the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors.”

Carl Sagan kniha Pale Blue Dot

Zdroj: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994), p. 53
Kontext: Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs — in time, in space, and in potential — the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors. We gaze across billions of light-years of space to view the Universe shortly after the Big Bang, and plumb the fine structure of matter. We peer down into the core of our planet, and the blazing interior of our star. We read the genetic language in which is written the diverse skills and propensities of every being on Earth. We uncover hidden chapters in the record of our origins, and with some anguish better understand our nature and prospects. We invent and refine agriculture, without which almost all of us would starve to death. We create medicines and vaccines that save the lives of billions. We communicate at the speed of light, and whip around the Earth in an hour and a half. We have sent dozens of ships to more than seventy worlds, and four spacecraft to the stars. We are right to rejoice in our accomplishments, to be proud that our species has been able to see so far, and to judge our merit in part by the very science that has so deflated our pretensions.

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