Carl Sagan

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“We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited behaviour patterns of lizards and baboons. We are, each of us, largerly responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about”

- Carl Sagan, COSMOS

10.05.2025 16:59 — 👍 19    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

“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

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Carl Sagan, Give Us Hope: An Open Letter to the Next President (with Ann Druyan) 1988

03.03.2025 14:58 — 👍 48    🔁 11    💬 3    📌 0

If you love Carl and what he stood for, please stand up for science and against extinction.

14.02.2025 18:26 — 👍 35    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Of all the thirty-five anniversaries of this iconic image, today’s is the grimmest.

Those in power ransack our future and steer us toward catastrophe.

“…there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.”

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“The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them…”

02.01.2025 16:38 — 👍 28    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

Jimmy Carter’s message about the Voyager Spacecraft

30.12.2024 04:47 — 👍 38    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Jimmy Carter (Oct 1st, 1924 - Dec 29th, 2024)

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“If we become even slightly more violent, shortsighted, ignorant, and selfish than we are now, almost certainly we will have no future”

- Pale Blue Dot, by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan

29.12.2024 16:14 — 👍 39    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 1

The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan

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