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  • February 13th, 2017 12:55pm

    humanoidhistory:

    “We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.”

    —Carl Sagan

  • February 23rd, 2016 2:35pm

    And after the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it’s burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being – and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth.

    — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot
    (via fyp-science)

  • March 17th, 2014 9:58am

    sci-universe:

    “Mars has become a kind of mythic arena onto which we’ve projected our earthly hopes and fears. However, in our time, we’ve come to find that the real Mars is a world of wonders. […] We have sifted the sand of Mars, established a presence there, and fulfilled a century of dreams.” — Carl Sagan, Cosmos: Part 5 – Blues For a Red Planet

    Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

  • August 3rd, 2013 5:07pm

    Premier Khrushchev once attempted to cashier a large number of senior officers in the Red Army, putting them in charge of hydroelectric power stations and the like. This was not to their liking, and in something like a year most of them were back in their old jobs. In fact, the military establishments of the United States and the Soviet Union owe their jobs to each other, and there is a very real sense in which they form a natural alliance against the rest of us.

    — Carl Sagan – The Cosmic Connection.

  • July 23rd, 2013 1:29am

    thescienceofreality:

    Get ready for the return of the Sagan-started, ever-popular television show Cosmos, coming in 2014, featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson! Image Credit : Penny4NASA via Milky way scientists 
    Watch the new trailer for Cosmos, featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson.

    Arriving on Fox and National Geographic channels in spring 2014 as part of a 13-episode series, “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey” builds off Carl Sagan’s groundbreaking series of a similar name (subtitled “A Personal Voyage”) seen on PBS more than 30 years ago.

    There’s a lot of geek cred behind the refreshed “Cosmos,“ as Sagan’s widow Ann Druyan, who played a major role in the production of the original series, serves as an executive producer and writer for the new episodes. Astronomer and original writer Steven Soter makes a return, too.

    Continue reading at CNET.

  • July 9th, 2013 10:50pm

    Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring–not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive… If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds.

    — Carl Sagan