Carl Edward Sagan (Brooklyn (), 9 november 1934 – Seattle (Washington), 20 december 1996) was een Amerikaanse astronoom, astrofysicus, kosmoloog, scepticus en wetenschapscommunicator.Hij publiceerde meer dan 600 wetenschappelijke bevindingen en artikelen, en was auteur, coauteur of redacteur van meer dan 20 boeken, met name populair …

Dec 20, 1996 · Carl Sagan A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. Today, we're still loaded down - and, to some extent, embarrassed - by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth.

Jan 01, 2001 · Re-visit 2016: 1: The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean: After an introduction by Ann Druyan, including the benefits of the end of the Cold War, Carl Sagan opens the program with a description of the cosmos and a "Spaceship of the Imagination" (shaped like a dandelion seed). The ship journeys through the universes' hundred billion galaxies, the Local ...

May 10, 2022 · The statute of limitations has surely expired for Contact, the 1997 Robert Zemeckis adaptation of Carl Sagan’s eponymous novel. The film suggests early on that Earth has been receiving communications from outer space, but for most of its two and a half hours keeps its audience in suspense as to the nature of the extraterrestrials sending them.