![]() ![]() But is that all? Is there nothing in here but molecules? Some people find this idea somehow demeaning to human dignity. You are a collection of almost identical molecules with a different collective label. I am a collection of water, calcium and organic molecules called Carl Sagan. His response to a critique of science as a reductionist worldview that removes meaning. We do not know in advance who will discover fundamental new insights. The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge it has no place in the endeavor of science. Science is generated by and devoted to free inquiry: the idea that any hypothesis, no matter how strange, deserves to be considered on its merits. The worst aspect of the Velikovsky affair is not that his hypotheses were wrong or in contradiction to firmly established facts, but that some who called themselves scientists attempted to suppress Velikovsky’s work. To be accepted, all new ideas must survive rigorous standards of evidence. But science is a self-correcting enterprise. Many hypotheses proposed by scientists as well as by non-scientists turn out to be wrong. He proposed that Venus was originally a comet that originated near Jupiter and before settling in its current orbit, came near Earth at the time of Moses to help part the Red Sea as well as cause volcanic eruptions and floods. This is in response to Immanual Velikovsky, a psychiatrist who in 1950. Context and quotes from Carl Sagan's Cosmos The following quotes jumped out to me as I read through the book. This explanation from his Cosmos series about Googol, a Googolplex, and infinity is something I honestly still think about all the time all these years later. I read the book version of Cosmos several years ago and found it to be equally awe-inspiring and cosmically humbling as the TV version.īefore getting to the quotes, here is one more video I would recommend, if only to get a sense of his voice, because it is so much more fun to read the below in his voice and cadence. To see what I mean, just check out his famous thoughts about our Pale Blue Dot. ![]() He is also able to successfully pull off a level of earnestness and poetic language that feels missing or discouraged in today’s discourse. Sagan has a way of communicating the wonder of the universe and history of science in an erudite, yet down to earth way. There was a before, and an after, where the after was marked by a much more intense desire to understand the world around me. This series was a clear demarcation line in my life when I watched it a little over a decade ago. That is the brilliant first line from Carl Sagan’s 1980 TV series, Cosmos, as well as the first line of his book of the same name. And 'hate' does not beginning to touch how I feel about that."The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be." And number three, he thinks he's in jail because we set him up. And 'hate' does not beginning to touch how I feel about that idea. Lucy: Langston Hughes, the author of "Father of Mine." Are you sure you can pull this off? Lucy: You want to stop Rittenhouse as much as we do.įlynn: Absolutely, once you get me out of here. : Because, as much as you need us, we need you more.įlynn: Do you have any ability to do this on your own?.Lucy: Because, as much as you need us, we need you more. ![]() : So is this what we do now? We steal clothes, like Winona Ryder pre-"Stranger Things?".So is this what we do now? We steal clothes, like Winona Ryder pre-"Stranger Things?" Wyatt: Why would Rittenhouse send someone to a movie studio? : I want something new, something different, but the same, and that sells, but wins awards.I want something new, something different, but the same, and that sells, but wins awards. : Hamilton, as a musical? It'll never work.Hamilton, as a musical? It'll never work. All you have to do is stand still and look. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid. ![]()
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