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Article: Our place in the universe.(tributes to Carl Sagan)
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- Skeptic (Altadena, CA)
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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CARL SAGAN WAS A SCHOLAR AND A visionary. He changed the world. His work still does. As I think back on the time I got to spend in his classes, I realize now what made him the best science communicator of his day. He loved discovery, he encouraged exploration, and he celebrated science. That last one was the refrain of his life's song. He imbued in us students a reverence for science. He wanted everyone to feel as he did that the process of science was what let humans make great discoveries, and that those discoveries somehow will improve the lives of people everywhere on Earth.
That idea, that bit right there, is the insight that he extolled in life--in his ...