he was Carlin's favorite comic, imagine being that. And I've seen enough of Sagan's views on Charlie Rose, his last interviews, but both of them were very controlled and calculated, Bill was so passionate, you know? this world would be like burning hellfire to him. Maybe break him, we've seen it
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 AM
he was Carlin's favorite comic, imagine being that. And I've seen enough of Sagan's views on Charlie Rose, his last interviews, but both of them were very controlled and calculated, Bill was so passionate, you know? this world would be like burning hellfire to him. Maybe break him, we've seen it
Reading Carl Sagan's A DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD: SCIENCE AS A CANDLE IN THE DARK, and I can only imagine his utter disappointment in humanity were he here today.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
"The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."
www.motherjones.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Reading Carl Sagan's A DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD: SCIENCE AS A CANDLE IN THE DARK, and I can only imagine his utter disappointment in humanity were he here today.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I hope that is Cosmos TOS with Carl Sagan. I like the more recent too but Sagan’s introduced me not only to the wider world and universe with stunning visuals, but the music introduced me to the wider world of music. And that music is one of my great pleasures today.
November 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I hope that is Cosmos TOS with Carl Sagan. I like the more recent too but Sagan’s introduced me not only to the wider world and universe with stunning visuals, but the music introduced me to the wider world of music. And that music is one of my great pleasures today.
Like @ehmee.bsky.social’s The Brain Scoop, watching Carl Sagan’s Cosmos was a major re-entry point into science as an adult, making screengrabs of every episode and posting them on Tumblr. Here’s some of my faves I found while working on the latest See Jurassic Right Back To School series episode.
November 23, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Like @ehmee.bsky.social’s The Brain Scoop, watching Carl Sagan’s Cosmos was a major re-entry point into science as an adult, making screengrabs of every episode and posting them on Tumblr. Here’s some of my faves I found while working on the latest See Jurassic Right Back To School series episode.
You are familiar with Carl Sagan's apple pie theory then
November 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
You are familiar with Carl Sagan's apple pie theory then
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Propaganda works if we let it.
Churchill — 'There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them'
Sagan's BS detector is a good filter.
Thanks for the good work you and Hydra do☮️
Churchill — 'There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them'
Sagan's BS detector is a good filter.
Thanks for the good work you and Hydra do☮️
November 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Propaganda works if we let it.
Churchill — 'There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them'
Sagan's BS detector is a good filter.
Thanks for the good work you and Hydra do☮️
Churchill — 'There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them'
Sagan's BS detector is a good filter.
Thanks for the good work you and Hydra do☮️
Carl Sagan’s Vision
November 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Carl Sagan’s Vision
Thinking about HER
November 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Thinking about HER
Just in time for the weekend- my rendition of Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot!
I have loved this since high school and knew if I was teaching a solar system class I had to do it. Not gonna lie, if this is the ONE thing my students remember from my class years later I'm happy 🔭🧪🎢
youtu.be/HKqYi3Syzeg
I have loved this since high school and knew if I was teaching a solar system class I had to do it. Not gonna lie, if this is the ONE thing my students remember from my class years later I'm happy 🔭🧪🎢
youtu.be/HKqYi3Syzeg
Voyager I and the Pale Blue Dot
YouTube video by Astronomer here!
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Just in time for the weekend- my rendition of Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot!
I have loved this since high school and knew if I was teaching a solar system class I had to do it. Not gonna lie, if this is the ONE thing my students remember from my class years later I'm happy 🔭🧪🎢
youtu.be/HKqYi3Syzeg
I have loved this since high school and knew if I was teaching a solar system class I had to do it. Not gonna lie, if this is the ONE thing my students remember from my class years later I'm happy 🔭🧪🎢
youtu.be/HKqYi3Syzeg
As postdoc (mid-80s) at Princeton I went a public talk he gave. Awful. People wanted Sagan's "Blues for a Red Planet." M gave them. "Mars is a dead rock of interest to geologists only," and made fun of some Princeton Mars work done in the 50s...
November 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
As postdoc (mid-80s) at Princeton I went a public talk he gave. Awful. People wanted Sagan's "Blues for a Red Planet." M gave them. "Mars is a dead rock of interest to geologists only," and made fun of some Princeton Mars work done in the 50s...
Carl Sagan’s Vision
November 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Carl Sagan’s Vision
Not necessarily, I mean unless we have clear evidence that it is the case.
I completely agree with Sagan's quote, but this statement from Altman is very likely not an illustration of it.
I completely agree with Sagan's quote, but this statement from Altman is very likely not an illustration of it.
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Not necessarily, I mean unless we have clear evidence that it is the case.
I completely agree with Sagan's quote, but this statement from Altman is very likely not an illustration of it.
I completely agree with Sagan's quote, but this statement from Altman is very likely not an illustration of it.
Whenever I think of Fox "News" viewers, I think of this quote from Carl Sagan's book "The Demon-Haunted World":
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Whenever I think of Fox "News" viewers, I think of this quote from Carl Sagan's book "The Demon-Haunted World":
I remember watching at home and the after show with Carl Sagan’s analogy about a “room awash in gasoline”.
November 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I remember watching at home and the after show with Carl Sagan’s analogy about a “room awash in gasoline”.
Remember Carl Sagan's words about the impossibility of convincing those people using arguments rooted on scientific evidence:
"You can't convince a believer of anything, for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe."
They actively choose to be fooled.
"You can't convince a believer of anything, for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe."
They actively choose to be fooled.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Remember Carl Sagan's words about the impossibility of convincing those people using arguments rooted on scientific evidence:
"You can't convince a believer of anything, for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe."
They actively choose to be fooled.
"You can't convince a believer of anything, for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe."
They actively choose to be fooled.
I swear I saw this same image in high school in an episode of Carl Sagan's Cosmos.
we can probably agree on the following interpretation
parties can increase their probability of winning future elections not only (or even primarily) by moving to the coherent center on ideological issues, but by moving down the axis of ideology-materialism and focusing attention on affordability
parties can increase their probability of winning future elections not only (or even primarily) by moving to the coherent center on ideological issues, but by moving down the axis of ideology-materialism and focusing attention on affordability
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I swear I saw this same image in high school in an episode of Carl Sagan's Cosmos.
Carl Sagan’s Vision
November 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Carl Sagan’s Vision
Cosmos was simply outstanding! I am amazed how well it watches even today and how Dr. Sagan’s warnings about civilized society being consumed by pseudo science and its charlatan practitioners have proven eerily prophetic. 😕
November 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Cosmos was simply outstanding! I am amazed how well it watches even today and how Dr. Sagan’s warnings about civilized society being consumed by pseudo science and its charlatan practitioners have proven eerily prophetic. 😕
Very much like that! Or Carl Sagan’s Cosmos!
November 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Very much like that! Or Carl Sagan’s Cosmos!
The decline of trust in professionals and institutions is what the marketplace of ideas has brought us. The ideals of Holmes, Locke, and most of all Rawls’s original position have not born fruit. Turns out Sagan’s foreboding and Asimov’s perception of a cult of ignorance have overtaken rationality.
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 5:29 AM
The decline of trust in professionals and institutions is what the marketplace of ideas has brought us. The ideals of Holmes, Locke, and most of all Rawls’s original position have not born fruit. Turns out Sagan’s foreboding and Asimov’s perception of a cult of ignorance have overtaken rationality.
Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot speech made such a huge impact on me the first time I heard it and I continue to revisit it and it continues to bring me to tears every time.
November 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot speech made such a huge impact on me the first time I heard it and I continue to revisit it and it continues to bring me to tears every time.
Perhaps the core element of Carl Sagan's Cosmos--the dimension that makes it so timeless, regardless of how far beyond the scientific results he presented in it we have come--is his continuous recalling of the arch-importance of perpetual skepticism and openness to revision: the empirical method.
"People have to know that science is important and cool"
I believe people "have to know" that the scientific method is a powerful instrument which works only insofar as it is respected. This is an infinitely more important and cool message to transmit than any given piece of even certain knowledge
I believe people "have to know" that the scientific method is a powerful instrument which works only insofar as it is respected. This is an infinitely more important and cool message to transmit than any given piece of even certain knowledge
November 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Perhaps the core element of Carl Sagan's Cosmos--the dimension that makes it so timeless, regardless of how far beyond the scientific results he presented in it we have come--is his continuous recalling of the arch-importance of perpetual skepticism and openness to revision: the empirical method.
We are a way for the cosmos to experience itself, end-less-ly!
The first part in Carl Sagan's voice and the last word in Tom Araya of Slayer's voice.
The first part in Carl Sagan's voice and the last word in Tom Araya of Slayer's voice.
November 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
We are a way for the cosmos to experience itself, end-less-ly!
The first part in Carl Sagan's voice and the last word in Tom Araya of Slayer's voice.
The first part in Carl Sagan's voice and the last word in Tom Araya of Slayer's voice.
every time I use this construction, I think of the Carl Sagan's quote “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
November 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
every time I use this construction, I think of the Carl Sagan's quote “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
Science was already dead. We’ve been doing “weekend at Sagan’s” for years now.
November 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Science was already dead. We’ve been doing “weekend at Sagan’s” for years now.