Inside Outer Space: Review: “Carl Sagan: We are Made of Star Stuff” by Clark R. Chapman
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Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, planetary scientist and science communicator. Initially an assistant professor at Harvard, Sagan later moved to Cornell, where he was the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and directed the Laboratory for Planetary Studies. He played an active role in the Mariner, Viking and Voyager programs. He published more than 600 scientific pa…
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science · American scientist and science communicator (1934–1996) · cosmologist · astrophysicist · novelist · planetary scientist · space scientist · science communicator · science fiction writer · science writer · astronomer · university teacher · also Carl Sagan, Sagan, Carl E. Sagan, Carl E Sagan, C. E. Sagan, C.E. Sagan
Born 9 November 1934 · Died 20 December 1996 · Q410
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2026· 23 entries
Rouleur: From battling Sagan, to battling two 'super-freaks': Michael Matthews adapts to change and has his day
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mindmatters.ai: Dinosaurs, Meet Carl Sagan at the End of Oak Street
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Entertainment.ie: Carl Sagan is finally getting a biopic film of his life and work
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Visit Maine: Points North Community Screening of Carl Sagan: We Are Made of Star Stuff
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Inside Outer Space: World Premier: Carl Sagan Documentary
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ScienceBlog.com: In 1990, after nearly a decade of lobbying by Carl Sagan against engineers who feared pointing the camera near the Sun would fry the vidicon tubes, Voyager 1 swung back from about 6 billion kilometres and took 60 frames of home, one of which caught Earth
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The Economic Times: Quote of the day by Carl Sagan: 'For small creatures such as humans the universe is bearable only through
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The Economic Times: Quote of the day by Carl Sagan: 'For small creatures such as humans the universe is bearable only through love' - A powerful life lesson on why love can make life’s biggest ...
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TheWrap: ‘Carl Sagan: We Are Made of Star Stuff’ Review: If You Wish to Make a Romance, You Must First Invent the Universe
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AS: Carl Sagan, científico: “Nos creemos importantes, pero solo somos una mota de polvo en la galaxia”
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Reuters: Carl Sagan estate sues AI company over audio clip in ad
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“My parents were not scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily cohabiting modes of thought that are central to the scientific method.”
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OkDiario: Carl Sagan, astrónomo y divulgador científico: «Somos una forma de que el cosmos se conozca a sí mismo. Nue...
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AS: Carl Sagan, divulgador científico “Un eclipse solar es el momento en que el cosmos nos demuestra que la geomet
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Mshale: Jeju United FC VS SAGAN TOSU 2 Southwark Council (3RNrBwkkzC)
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Space Daily: In 1977, Carl Sagan and Frank Drake sat in a Cornell office arguing over what to put on the Voyager Golden Record, and among the greetings in 55 languages, the whale song, and the Bach they included the sound of a young woman's brainwaves recorded w
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Space Daily: A six-year-old boy recorded the English greeting now drifting through interstellar space on Voyager's Golden Record, and he was not chosen at random — Carl Sagan's son Nick said: "Hello from the children of planet Earth."
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Radio Mitre: Carl Sagan, astrónomo y astrofísico: “Una de las lecciones más tristes de la historia es esta: si nos han engañado durante el tiempo suficiente, tendemos a rechazar cualquier evidencia del engaño”
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IMDb: Seven Deadly Sins and a Small Carl Sagan - Young Sheldon: Seven Deadly Sins And A Small Carl Sagan
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Clarin.com: Carl Sagan, científico y escritor: "En algún lugar, algo increíble espera ser descubierto"
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El Confidencial: Carl Sagan, astrónomo: "Saber mucho no es lo mismo que ser inteligente. La inteligencia no es solo información, sino también juicio"
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Yahoo: Carl Sagan's Timeless Quote on Imagination Inspires Exploration of the Cosmos
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2025· 4 entries
Published video “What would a memorial for nuclear war look like?”.
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Snopes rated the claim “Scientist and educator Carl Sagan once said, "The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas."” Mostly True.
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Yahoo: Carl Sagan gets his moment at the movies thanks to 'Elio' and 'The Life of Chuck'
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SETI: Celebrating Carl Sagan at 90: He Brought the Cosmos to Us All
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2024· 3 entries
Published video ““The suppression of uncomfortable ideas…””.
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RealClearScience: Carl Sagan's Scientific Legacy Goes Beyond 'Cosmos'
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Published video “Carl Sagan describes our place in the universe”.
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2023· 9 entries
Published video “50th re-dedication of the Eternal Light Peace Memorial speech by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan”.
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Published video “A Quantum Love Story featuring poetry by Ann Druyan with music by Tonio Sagan x Moon Hooch”.
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Published video “Who Speaks For Earth?”.
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Published video “Carl Sagan discussing Nuclear Winter with congress 1985”.
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Published video “Carl Sagan teaching students about the Milky Way galaxy”.
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Published video “The scientific illiteracy of Americans is scandalous”.
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Published video “Carl Sagan calls out mainstream media”.
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Yahoo: New Carl Sagan documentary in the works from National Geographic and Seth MacFarlane
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A movie Voyagers by Sebastián Lelio was announced with Sagan played by Andrew Garfield and with Daisy Edgar-Jones playing Sagan's third wife, Ann Druyan
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2022· 2 entries
The audiobook recording of Sagan's Pale Blue Dot was selected for inclusion in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant
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Sagan was posthumously awarded the Future of Life Award "for reducing the risk of nuclear war by developing and popularizing the science of nuclear winter
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2021· 2 entries
Labroots: 10 Facts You May Not Know About Carl Sagan
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USA Today rated the claim “Carl Sagan said, 'If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be'” Missing Context.
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2020· 1 entry
New York Post: Carl Sagan’s socialism hot take with Ted Turner goes viral 31 years later
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2019· 2 entries
The Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Theater was opened at the Center for Inquiry West in Los Angeles
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Sagan's daughter Sasha released For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in our Unlikely World, which depicts life with her parents and her father's death when she was fourteen
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2018· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “A photograph shows Carl Sagan holding a sign reading "No Billboards in Space."” False.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A photograph shows Carl Sagan holding a sign reading "No Billboards in Space."” False.
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2017· 2 entries
Time: Carl Sagan's Widow Ann Druyan on the 'Mythic, Biblical Power' of a Solar Eclipse
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Snopes rated the claim “Carl Sagan once speculated about the dangers of a future United States in which “key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries”, where people “have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority” and “no one representing the public inter…” True.
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2016· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Carl Sagan said "if it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth."” Incorrect Attribution.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Carl Sagan said "if it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth."” Incorrect Attribution.
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2014· 2 entries
Fox News: Carl Sagan's legacy: From the 'pale blue dot' to interstellar space
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Druyan and Seth MacFarlane produced Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, hosted by Neil Degrasse Tyson
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Solstice Award (2013).
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2011· 1 entry
“Citation choisie pour le 18 septembre 2011.”
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2010· 1 entry
It was estimated to be 300 sextillion (3 × 1023)
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2009· 3 entries
Awarded New Jersey Hall of Fame (2009).
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A musical project known as Symphony of Science sampled several excerpts of Sagan from his series Cosmos and remixed them to electronic music
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“Citation choisie pour le 3 juin 2009.”
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2006· 2 entries
Druyan edited Sagan's 1985 Glasgow Gifford Lectures in Natural Theology into a book, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God, in which he elaborates on his views of divinity in the n
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“Conversations with Carl Sagan (2006), edited by Tom Head, p. 70”
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded International Space Hall of Fame (2004).
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Named the "99th Greatest American" on June 5, 2005, Greatest American television series on the Discovery Channel
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2003· 1 entry
It was estimated to be 70 sextillion (7 × 1022)
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2001· 1 entry
On what would have been Sagan's 67th birthday, the Ames Research Center dedicated the site for the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Cosmos
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2000· 1 entry
“Es gibt naive Fragen, langweilige Fragen, schlecht formulierte Fragen, Fragen, die nach unzureichender Selbstkritik gestellt werden. Aber jede Frage ist ein Aufschrei, die Welt verstehen zu wollen. Es gibt keine dummen Fragen." - Der Drache in meiner Garage oder Die Kunst der Wissenschaft, Unsinn zu entlarven. Köln, 2000. ISBN 3-426-26912-0. Übersetzer: Michael Schmidt”
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1999· 2 entries
Brought media attention to this aspect of Sagan's life
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An article published in the journal Nature revealed that Sagan had included the classified titles of two Project A119 papers in his 1959 application for a scholarship to University of California, Berkeley
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1998· 2 entries
Awarded Gerard P. Kuiper Prize (1998).
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Awarded Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation for Contact (1998).
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1997· 1 entry
The Sagan Planet Walk was opened in Ithaca, New York
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1996· 16 entries
Died 1996-12-20.
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“Charlie Rose: An Interview with Carl Sagan, May 27, 1996.”
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“("There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question" - The Demon-Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark. Ballantine Books 1996. p. 323)”
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“Chapter 2, “Genes and Brains” (p. 27)”
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“Talk of the Nation (3 May 1996)”
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About his religious beliefs, Sagan said he was agnostic
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“In the Valley of the Shadow", Parade, 10 March 1996”
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“Gdybyśmy zaczęli na Ziemi jeszcze raz wszystko od początku i liczyli tylko na przypadek, wówczas w takich samych warunkach fizycznych nie powstałoby nic, co by choć w przybliżeniu przypominało istoty ludzkie. Po prostu w naszej historii ewolucyjnej jest za dużo przypadków, żeby gdziekolwiek indziej mogły powstać istoty żywe, całkiem podobne do istot ludzkich.”
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“Kosmos jest tym wszystkim, co jest, kiedykolwiek było lub kiedykolwiek będzie.”
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“Lecz życie nie wie, dokąd podąża. Nie ma żadnego długoterminowego planu. Nie myśli o końcu. W ogóle nie myśli. Nie istnieje umysł, w którym odbywałby się proces myślenia. Ewolucja stanowi przeciwieństwo teleologii. Życie jest rozrzutne i ślepe. Nie zna pojęcia sprawiedliwości. Może sobie pozwolić na marnotrawstwo.”
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“The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us — there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.”
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“The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world. (ang.)”
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“The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by God one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.”
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“Carl Sagan: 'Science Is a Way of Thinking', Science Friday interview from May 1996, 27 December 2013”
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“PT Staff (01 January 1996), "Carl Sagan, author interview", Psychology Today”
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“Charlie Rose: An Interview with Carl Sagan (27 May 1996)”
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1995· 4 entries
“Wonder and Skepticism”, Skeptical Inquirer 19 (1), janeiro-fevereiro de 1995”
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“O mundo assombrado pelos demônios, Cap. 1 (1995)”
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“In Wonder and Skepticism, Skeptical Inquirer (Jan-Feb 1995), 19, No. 1.”
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“Wonder and Skepticism", Skeptical Inquirer 19 (1), January-February 1995, ISSN 0194-6730”
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1994· 6 entries
Won NAS Public Welfare Medal (1994).
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“(EN) Da Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, 1³ ed., New York, Random House, 1994, ISBN 0-679-43841-6; citato in planetary.org.”
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“Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)”
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“Washington Post (9 de enero de 1994)”
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“Bringing Science Down to Earth (1994), co-authored with Anne Kalosh, in Hemispheres (October 1994), p. 99; this is similar to statements either mentioned in earlier interviews or published later in the book The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995)”
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“With Science on Our Side", Washington Post (9 January 1994)”
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1993· 4 entries
Awarded Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science (1993).
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That did not, "even in passing" state that such interception and deflection technologies could have these "ancillary dangers
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Sky & Telescope held a contest to replace the name of the Big Bang model
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Engineers at Apple Computer code-named the Power Macintosh 7100 "Carl Sagan" in the hope that Apple would make "billions and billions"
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1992· 3 entries
Sagan emphasized the importance of science to Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and democracy in America: It is a fact of life on our beleaguered little planet that widespread torture, famine and government
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“Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors”
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“Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" (1992) (co-written with Ann Druyan)”
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1991· 2 entries
Awarded Masursky Award (1991).
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“Sollten wir uns daher in den Kopf setzen, unseren Apfelkuchen von Grund auf selber zu machen, müßten wir erst das Universum erfinden." - Unser Kosmos, München 1991, ISBN 3-426-04053-0, Kapitel 9, Seite 230. Übersetzer: Siglinde Summerer, Gerda Kurz”
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1990· 2 entries
Won Oersted Medal (1990).
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“Why We Need To Understand Science" in The Skeptical Inquirer Vol. 14, Issue 3 (Spring 1990)”
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1988· 2 entries
“God, The Universe and Everything Else, 1988 (pronunciado en el min 41:58 de 52:10)”
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Magnus Magnusson moderated a discussion between Sagan, Hawking and Arthur C
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1987· 3 entries
“Keynote address at CSICOP conference (1987), as quoted in Do Science and the Bible Conflict? (2003) by Judson Poling, p. 30”
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“The Burden of Skepticism" in Skeptical Inquirer Vol. 12, Issue 1 (Fall 1987)”
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“O fardo do ceticismo" em Skeptical Inquirer Vol. 12, Edição 1 (Outono de 1987)”
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded Locus Award for Best First Novel for Contact (1986).
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1985· 2 entries
Awarded Leo Szilard Lectureship Award (1985).
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That the greenhouse effect would change the Earth's climate system
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1984· 2 entries
Awarded The Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism (1984).
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Co-authored the book The Cold and the Dark: The World after Nuclear War and in 1990, the book A Path Where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race, which explains the nuclear-winter hypothesis and
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1983· 3 entries
Was one of five authors—the "S"—in the follow-up "TTAPS" model (as the research article came to be known), which contained the first use of the term "nuclear winter", which his colleague Richard P
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“Remarks on the nuclear arms race, on ABC News Viewpoint — "The Day After" (20 November 1983)”
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“Todos los números de página son de la edición de bolsillo para el mercado de masas publicada por Ballantine Books (ISBN:0-345-29765-2) (12ª edición en Estados Unidos, marzo de 1983)”
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1981· 3 entries
Awarded Hugo Award for Best Related Work for Cosmos (1981).
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Awarded Humanist of the Year (1981).
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Sagan married author Ann Druyan and they later had two children, Alexandra (known as Sasha) and Samuel Sagan
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1980· 3 entries
Sagan estimated it to be 10 sextillion in short scale (1022)
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“Todos los números de página son de la edición de bolsillo de octubre de 1980 publicada por Ballantine Books (ISBN:0-345-33689-5) (28ª edición)”
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“Carl Sagan, Cosmos, por Carl Sagan, 1980, p. 29. Letting the Fossil Record Speak; Life—How Did It Get Here? By Evolution or by Creation?”
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1978· 2 entries
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (1978).
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“Smithsonian magazine, May 1978, pp. 43, 44. Quoted in Awake! magazine, 1978, 8/22.”
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1976· 1 entry
Became the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences, a position he held for the remainder of his life
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1974· 3 entries
Aimed at informing potential extraterrestrials about Earth
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Awarded Klumpke-Roberts Award (1974).
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Challenged Immanuel Velikovsky to a debate
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1971· 1 entry
Participated in a panel on Mars with Ray Bradbury, Arthur C
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1970· 2 entries
“Planetary Exploration (University of Oregon Books, Eugene, Oregon, 1970), page 15”
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And directed the Laboratory for Planetary Studies there
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1968· 2 entries
And they had a child together, Nick Sagan, and divorced in 1981
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Sagan was denied academic tenure at Harvard
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1966· 1 entry
Sagan was a member of the Ad Hoc Committee to Review Project Blue Book, the U
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1962· 1 entry
Produced a controversial paper funded by a NASA research grant that concludes ancient alien intervention may have sparked human civilization
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1961· 2 entries
In the journal Science on the atmosphere of Venus, while also working with NASA's Mariner 2 team, and served as a "Planetary Sciences Consultant" to the RAND Corporation
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Harvard University astronomers Fred Whipple and Donald Menzel offered Sagan the opportunity to give a colloquium at Harvard and subsequently offered him a lecturer position at the institution
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1960· 1 entry
Studied at University of Chicago, doctorate (1960).
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1958· 2 entries
For the Armour Research Foundation's Project A119, concerning the possibility of detonating a nuclear device on the lunar surface
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Sagan and Kuiper worked on the classified military Project A119, a secret United States Air Force plan to detonate a nuclear warhead on the Moon and document its effects
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1956· 2 entries
Studied at University of Chicago, Master of Science (1956).
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And a Doctor of Philosophy in astronomy and astrophysics in 1960
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1955· 2 entries
Earned a Bachelor of Science in physics
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Studied at University of Chicago, Bachelor of Science (1955).
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1952· 1 entry
Sparked his interest in the origin of life
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1950· 1 entry
Sagan wrote the essay "Space, Time, and the Poet" for his high school newspaper
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1948· 1 entry
When he was 14, his father's work took the family to Rahway, New Jersey, where he attended Rahway High School
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1947· 2 entries
The year that inaugurated the "flying saucer" craze, the young Sagan suspected the "discs" might be alien spaceships
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Discovered Astounding Science Fiction, which introduced him to more hard science fiction speculations: "Each month I eagerly awaited the arrival of Astounding
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1934· 2 entries
In the Bensonhurst neighborhood of New York City's Brooklyn borough
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Born 1934-11-09.
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