This is a re-post of an old image I made, but it is to celebrate, along with the rest of the blogosphere, the 10th Anniversary of his Death.
Carl Sagan along with Lewis Thomas and Darby Crash, was (is) a great hero of mine, I spent a good deal of last year viewing his wonderful Cosmos series, and The Demon Haunted World remains one of my all-time favorite books. Carl Sagan was an arch-scientist. The scientist as humanist, poet, and philosopher that should be at the helm of our cultural endeavors as opposed to the buffoons we regularly suffer to make decisions for "the good of mankind." Dedicated to reason, Sagan continued to fight the good fight up until his death with modesty, compassion, and love of all life. You will not be readily forgotten.
"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
"The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition."
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."