Name: Seven Wonders of the New World | Cosmos: Possible Worlds
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NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: We all feel the weight

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But in another time, every bit as ominous as our own,

there were those who could see a way through the darkness

Carl Sagan wrote, "I was a child in a time of hope.

I wanted to be a scientist from my earliest school days.

The crystallizing moment came when I first caught on

that the stars are mighty suns, when it first dawned on me how

staggeringly far away they must be to appear as mere points

I'm not sure I even knew the meaning of the word 'science'

I was gripped by the splendor of the universe, transfixed

by the prospect of understanding how things really work,

of exploring new worlds, maybe even literally.

It has been my good fortune to have had that dream in part

as appealing and new as it was on that day

The angriest voices had taken the world stage, preaching

which would take the lives of 16 million human beings,

Sagan and his contemporaries with a thrilling vision

of the future one that was powerful enough to inspire many

of them to do the years of hard work required to become

The miracle of television became a reality to the public

into what would become a civilization-altering force.

This working model of a TV set was transparent to convince

were actually live signals from across time and space.

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Seven Wonders of the New World | Cosmos: Possible Worlds

literally

force

convince

manipulate