Name: Carl Sagan: "I don’t want to believe. I want to know." | Sasha Sagan
Uploaded: 2022-08-23T18:25:19.000Z
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- Science and technology have come a long way

in making it possible  for us to do things

Adverbs of degree

that would've seemed like magic tricks not too long ago-

For most of history, that seemed absolutely impossible.

We're stuck here on the ground, looking up.

Think of how many gods and mythical figures

We wanted it so bad, and now we've managed to do it.

The oldest living person in the world was alive

when the Wright brothers flew the first flight at Kitty Hawk

The more we understand ourselves and our Universe,

called "For Small  Creatures Such as We."

I was brought up with a very scientific worldview.

and he and my mom, writer-producer Ann Druyan,

fell in love working on the Voyager Record,

that is a compilation of the sounds of life on Earth.

Greetings and human languages, and one whale language.

These two records are on the Voyager Spacecraft,

and they have a shelf life of a billion years.

And then my parents wrote essays and books,

about the awe and wonder that we can find in the Universe.

can be presented with enthusiasm and wonder and awe

that makes people feel  welcome in reveling

in how astonishing things are in the natural world,

we have made the most astonishing and  unexpected discoveries

about the cosmos and  our place within it.'

from my parents is this idea of tolerating ambiguity.

it's just a placeholder because we're so bad

on sitting with the discomfort of not knowing.

Tolerating ambiguity, waiting until you have evidence,

knowing that sometimes the evidence will change,

is central to any scientific advancement.

My dad, one of the things he was most curious about

- 'Everyone wants to know how unique the human species are.

How is it possible that in a galaxy of 400 billion stars

He wanted to find out what was really going on.

reveals how we feel about the unanswered great mysteries

And we have struggled for eons with this problem.

I think about "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court":

an eclipse was terrifying all over the world.

And now we know when they're coming, and we know it's safe.

that we've always longed for through science.

so much in life, even the most mundane, ordinary things

And I think that's true for so much of science,

and so much of the reality of our Universe.

And the more we understand ourselves and our planet,

about the Universe from his earliest childhood.

If he had been born a few hundred years earlier,

it would've been a lot harder for him to get the answers

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Carl Sagan: "I don’t want to believe. I want to know." | Sasha Sagan

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