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The Influence of Carl Sagan on Popular Science and Space Exploration

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Carl Sagan's remarkable ability to communicate complex scientific ideas in an accessible and engaging manner profoundly influenced the public’s interest in the cosmos. As an astrophysicist, author, and television personality, Sagan understood the importance of storytelling in making science relatable. His groundbreaking television series, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, is often cited as a pivotal moment in popular science communication. The series, …

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Carl Sagan Predicts the Decline of America: Unable to Know “What’s True,” We Will Slide, “Without Noticing, Back into Superstition & Darkness” (1995)

Image by Kenneth Zirkel, via Wikimedia Commons There have been many theories of how human history works. Some, like German thinker G.W.F. Hegel, have thought of progress as inevitable. Others have embraced a more static view, full of “Great Men” and an immutable natural order. Then we have the counter-Enlightenment thinker Giambattista Vico. The 18th century Neapolitan philosopher took human irrationalism seriously, and wrote about our tendency …

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