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“Like sailors on a becalmed sea…we sense the striking of a breeze.” - C. Sagan
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A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism, and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed.
Carl Sagan heavily influenced the scientific development of Neil deGrasse Tyson, influencing how he treats his students today.
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Some claim that evolution is just a theory, as if it were merely an opinion.
Carl Sagan goes up to the counter and stares silently at the menu for several long, uncomfortable minutes.
“Are you going to order anything?” asks the barista. “We have some great pastries made fresh today.”
“From scratch?” asks Sagan.
“Yes, of course,” says the barista.
“You know that’s impossible, right?” says Sagan. “What kind of business are you running here?”
“In our tenure on this planet we’ve accumulated dangerous evolutionary baggage: Propensities for aggression and ritual submission to leaders, hostility to outsiders. All of which puts our survival in some doubt. But we’ve also acquired compassion for others, love for our children, a desire to learn from history and experience and a great, soaring, passionate intelligence. The clear tools for our continued survival and prosperity. Which aspects of our nature will prevail is uncertain. Particularly when our visions and our prospects are bound to one small part of this small planet Earth. But up there in the cosmos, an inescapable perspective awaits. National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatic ethnic, or religious, or national identifications are a little difficult to support when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.“
– Carl Sagan [x]
