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Topic: Carl Sagan

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Angela Berkley,
High School Student

Spike stared at the stars in the moonless night sky, Carl Sagan's voice in his head saying "billions and billions.
Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk

When Cosmos was first broadcast in 1980, our world--and the context of Carl Sagan's eloquent "personal journey"--was a different place.
Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator

Here it is appropriate to remind scientists of Carl Sagan's famous riposte when dealing with their reviled pseudoscience: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Carl Sagan, The Demon Haunted World Science as a Candle in the Dark Check out Dr.
Around the time of his death in December 1996, I read many testimonials from people who said that Carl Sagan's work had been what prompted them to go into science.
Sam Hayden,
Gothic Nightclub Owner

His writing style lacks the wry wit and charm that characterized the late Carl Sagan's ( The Demon Haunted World ) entire body of work.
Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman

Carl Sagan's Cosmos is now available on DVD.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

To create animation of DNA for Carl Sagan's COSMOS TV Series, Jim Blinn proposed approximating each atom by a Gaussian potential, and using superposition of these potentials to define a surface.
This perspective has been represented elegantly by Carl Sagan's Cosmic Calendar , a record of the rapidly accelerating pace of "important emergent events" in universal history.
Unfortunately, this may not meet Carl Sagan's threshold of "extraordinary evidence," since his work seems to have been largely ignored by modern geologists.
Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant

It is important here to bear in mind Carl Sagan's definition of spirituality: 'the human relationship to the numinous.
Pete Trengle,
Bass Player

Jon used to live in Toronto and was the lead artist both on Carl Sagan's PBS series Cosmos and on the movie Contact.
 
 
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