In memory of Carl Sagan, born on this date in 1934. His unquenchable curiosity and enthusiasm for learning and knowledge, combined with his astute intellect and keen insights and powers of observation, make many of his eloquent writings seem eerily prophetic. But he’d be the last person to attribute them to supernatural powers; they came from the honing of his natural ones. His quote below begins, “Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking.”… #CarlSagan #quote #science
#CarlSagan was a hero of mine In the 70s I lived on a large commune in the hills near NASA Ames. One of us worked there under Dr Sagan making a stereo map of Mars from Mariner 9 photos
Never one to turn down an audience he brought his slideshow (the bones of Cosmos) up the mountain and gave 150 hippies a tour of the Universe projected on a pair of white sheets!
“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.”
![In the upper left corner of a rectangular pale green background is a small photo of a smiling (or laughing) Carl Sagan in a forest setting. The rest of the rectangle is the text of the rest of the quote that begins in the post, and its attribution:
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.”
— Carl Sagan (1934-1996) in his 1995 book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
[Source of image: RandysRandom.com]](https://keybored.me/photo/preview/640/1302726 "In the upper left corner of a rectangular pale green background is a small photo of a smiling (or laughing) Carl Sagan in a forest setting. The rest of the rectangle is the text of the rest of the quote that begins in the post, and its attribution:
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.”
— Carl Sagan (1934-1996) in his 1995 book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
[Source of image: RandysRandom.com]")
