Saganism
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In the Memory of Astronomer, Researcher, Educator, Communicator, Advocate and Activist who taught us importance of understanding Science.
Carl Sagan tribute account.
Carl Sagan tribute account.
“The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
November 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
“The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.”
― Neil DeGrasse Tyson
― Neil DeGrasse Tyson
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
“We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.”
― Neil DeGrasse Tyson
― Neil DeGrasse Tyson
“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
― Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth
― Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth
November 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
― Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth
― Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth
"But if intelligence is our only edge, we must learn to use it better, to sharpen it, to understand its limitations and deficiencies—to use it as cats use stealth, as walking sticks use camouflage, to make it the tool of our survival."
-Carl Sagan, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
-Carl Sagan, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
November 23, 2025 at 1:14 AM
"But if intelligence is our only edge, we must learn to use it better, to sharpen it, to understand its limitations and deficiencies—to use it as cats use stealth, as walking sticks use camouflage, to make it the tool of our survival."
-Carl Sagan, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
-Carl Sagan, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
"We wish to pursue the truth no matter where it leads - but to find the truth, we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact."
— Carl Sagan
— Carl Sagan
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
"We wish to pursue the truth no matter where it leads - but to find the truth, we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact."
— Carl Sagan
— Carl Sagan
"Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is co-ordinated and used. Still, the amount of information to which we have accessed is one index of our intelligence."
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
November 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is co-ordinated and used. Still, the amount of information to which we have accessed is one index of our intelligence."
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde
― Oscar Wilde
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde
― Oscar Wilde
"It is certainly true that all beliefs and all myths are worthy of a respectful hearing. It is not true that all folk beliefs are equally valid - if we’re talking not about an internal mindset, but about understanding of the external reality."
-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
November 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"It is certainly true that all beliefs and all myths are worthy of a respectful hearing. It is not true that all folk beliefs are equally valid - if we’re talking not about an internal mindset, but about understanding of the external reality."
-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
"Like it or not, we humans are bound up with our fellows, and with the other plants and animals all over the world.
Our lives are intertwined."
-Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
Our lives are intertwined."
-Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
November 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
"Like it or not, we humans are bound up with our fellows, and with the other plants and animals all over the world.
Our lives are intertwined."
-Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
Our lives are intertwined."
-Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
— James Baldwin
— James Baldwin
November 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
— James Baldwin
— James Baldwin
"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another."
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another."
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“First they fascinate the fools then they muzzle the intelligent.”
― Bertrand Russell
― Bertrand Russell
November 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“First they fascinate the fools then they muzzle the intelligent.”
― Bertrand Russell
― Bertrand Russell
"We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves."
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
November 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
"We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves."
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“The purpose of propaganda is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”
― Aldous Huxley
― Aldous Huxley
November 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
“The purpose of propaganda is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”
― Aldous Huxley
― Aldous Huxley
Carl Sagan on star wars in 1978.
November 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Carl Sagan on star wars in 1978.
"Cosmos is closed and light cannot escape from it, then it may be perfectly correct to describe the universe as a black hole. If you wish to know what it is like inside a black hole, look around you."
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
November 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"Cosmos is closed and light cannot escape from it, then it may be perfectly correct to describe the universe as a black hole. If you wish to know what it is like inside a black hole, look around you."
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
"The lack is not in intelligence, which is in plentiful supply; rather, the scarce commodity is systematic training in critical thinking."
-Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
-Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
"The lack is not in intelligence, which is in plentiful supply; rather, the scarce commodity is systematic training in critical thinking."
-Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
-Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
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Astronomers have found the first gap-clearing planet, WISPIT 2b nestled inside the rings of its star’s debris disk, it could be the missing link in planetary formation.
Credit: ESO/Laird Close, University of Arizona, R. F. van Capelleveen et al
Credit: ESO/Laird Close, University of Arizona, R. F. van Capelleveen et al
November 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Astronomers have found the first gap-clearing planet, WISPIT 2b nestled inside the rings of its star’s debris disk, it could be the missing link in planetary formation.
Credit: ESO/Laird Close, University of Arizona, R. F. van Capelleveen et al
Credit: ESO/Laird Close, University of Arizona, R. F. van Capelleveen et al
It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little about it.
November 12, 2025 at 2:12 AM
It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little about it.
Carl Sagan talks about alien civilizations.
November 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Carl Sagan talks about alien civilizations.
"Our Sun is a second- or third-generation star. All of the rocky and metallic material we stand on, the iron in our blood, the calcium in our teeth, the carbon in our genes were produced billions of years ago in the interior of a red giant star. We are made of star-stuff."
-Carl Sagan
-Carl Sagan
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
"Our Sun is a second- or third-generation star. All of the rocky and metallic material we stand on, the iron in our blood, the calcium in our teeth, the carbon in our genes were produced billions of years ago in the interior of a red giant star. We are made of star-stuff."
-Carl Sagan
-Carl Sagan
"The secrets of evolution are death and time—the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations."
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
"The secrets of evolution are death and time—the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations."
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
"The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas."
-Carl Sagan
-Carl Sagan
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
"The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas."
-Carl Sagan
-Carl Sagan
"For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love."
Happy 91st Birthday to Carl Sagan – a true pioneer of science who ignited our cosmic curiosity. ❤️
Happy 91st Birthday to Carl Sagan – a true pioneer of science who ignited our cosmic curiosity. ❤️
November 9, 2025 at 11:40 AM
"For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love."
Happy 91st Birthday to Carl Sagan – a true pioneer of science who ignited our cosmic curiosity. ❤️
Happy 91st Birthday to Carl Sagan – a true pioneer of science who ignited our cosmic curiosity. ❤️