Remembering Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
(November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) passed away 15 years ago today. Sagan was a gifted astronomer, astrophysicist, writer, and evangelist of science; he was best known for his TV series Cosmos, and his novel Contact, which was later made into a movie. Both dealt with the big questions of science (including are we alone?), and humanity’s place in the cosmos — about finding meaning through the scientific method, and experiencing wonder in the process. Sagan was a tremendously humane man, whose warmth and generosity of spirit exude a comforting glow that has inspired a generation of scientists, and now a generation of artists. In the years since Sagan’s death, the rise of the internet and tools to remix and share media have led to hundreds of videos based on Sagan’s work. — the man inspired a tremendous amount of creative work.
