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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year... (more Carl Sagan quotes)
He won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for his book "The Dragons of Eden" (1977).
Carl Sagan's show Cosmos was the most watched series in public-television history. It was seen by more than 500 million people in 60 countries.
His official titles at Cornell University were the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and the director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University.
He began teaching at Cornell University in 1968, becoming a full professor in 1971.
He wrote... (more Carl Sagan trivia)
| Conversations with Carl Sagan (Literary Conversations) by Tom Head | |
| Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos by William Poundstone | |
| Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective by Carl Sagan and Jerome Agel |
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