Let's meet some authors: Carl Sagan

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This is my first post of this kind… Let’s meet some authors!

Today, i want to introduce you this amazing author… Carl Sagan.

Carl Sagan was an american professor, author, astrophysicist and scientist. His students usually say that he was an very charismatic and open-mind man.

He born in November 9 (1934) in New York City.

With just 20 years old he graduated of Phisic, later he made a Master in Astrophisic.

A person full of goals and curiosity, who worked 18h per day, in 1965 he started to work with NASA, in 1970 in Harvard as professor, later changed to Cornell University in New York where he was the leader in the Special Science's Laboratory.

Charismatic, confident and relaxed, he started to talk about science on radio and tv, where he predicted the greenhouse effect.

Sagan was author of a lot of books and hundred of science projects, where he talked about life's origin, religion, the cosmos and he criticized some pseudo-sciences.

In his laboratory at Cornell University, he conducted a large number of experiments related to the origin of life and confirmed that the basic organic molecules of life can be reproduced under controlled conditions in the laboratory.

He worked at NASA, he believed in aliens but it did not bother him if they did not really exist. He received death threats but it is not known if they were on the part of people who believed in aliens or people who did not believe that nuclear tests could cause global warming, anyway, he hid daily in his laboratory.

For Sagan "Science is more than a set of knowledge, it is a way of thinking, a way of questioning the universe with skepticism with the delicate understanding of human fallibility"

His life was based on doing something significant, he died in 1996 due to pneumonia, the product of a complication related to cancer.

Books

• Contact

  (1985)

Intelligent Life in the Universe	(1966)
Planets	(1966)
The Cosmic Connection	(1973)
Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence	(1973)
Other Worlds	(1975)
The Dragons of Eden	(1977)
Broca's Brain	(1979)
Cosmos	(1980)
Murmurs of Earth	(1983)
Comet	(1985)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors	(1992)
Pale Blue Dot	(1994)
The Demon-Haunted World	(1995)
Billions & Billions	(1997)
The Varieties of Scientific Experience	(2006)

 

Quotes

“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”

“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?”

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.”