A Perspective On Human Life



MOON SEEN FROM SPACE



"We Live On a Hunk Of Rock And Metal That Circles

A Humdrum Star That Is One Of 400 Billion Other

Stars That Make Up The Milky Way Galaxy Which Is

One Of Billions Of Other Galaxies Which Make Up A

Universe Which May Be One Of A Very Large Number,

Perhaps An Infinite Number, Of Other Universes.

That Is A Perspective On Human Life And Our Culture

That Is Well Worth Pondering."  ~  Carl Sagan


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carl Edward Sagan (/ˈseɪɡən/; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences. He spent most of his career as a professor of astronomy at Cornell University where he directed the Laboratory for Planetary Studies. He published more than 600 scientific papers[2] and articles and was author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books. He advocated scientific skeptical inquiry and the scientific method, pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
Sagan is known for his popular science books and for the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which he narrated and co-wrote.[3] The book Cosmos was published to accompany the series. Sagan wrote the novel Contact, the basis for a 1997 film of the same name.