Carl Sagan, Nov 9, 1934-Dec 20, 1996

[sarge43]

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[betsuni]

1. Billions and billions of thanks to Carl Sagan,

he had such passion, wanted everyone to get excited about the wonder of life and science. He was such an influence.

[nirvana555]

2. One of my best friends is married to Carl Sagan's first cousin. In fact when I met her at work

almost 15 years ago, and she told me her name, I jokingly said (in Responding to her last name) Oh, like "in Carl Sagan" and she said yea, my husband

And he are first cousins. These two are the nicest most down to earth folks you'd ever want to know.

[kairos12]

3. Great man--I wonder what he would think of the anti-science crazies today.

[sarge43]

4. He'd with gentlemanly finesse take them apart brick by brick.

I attended one of his lecture. During Q&A some mouth breather in the audience asked him if he believed in God. He asked breather "Which God"? "Well, the American god!" (Honest). Sagan was the only person in the room who didn't laugh out loud. He was a kind man, but he never suffered fools. His answer reduced to a sentence: He couldn't believe in something that was impossible to know or understand, if that entity even existed.

[kairos12]

5. In his brillant and kind way he reminded me of Mr. Rogers.

[sarge43]

6. Never thought of that, but can see it now

Both of them liked people and loved to teach.