Carl Sagan Quotes
Some racists still reject the plain testimony written in the DNA that all the races are not only human but nearly indistinguishable. . . .
Sagan, Carl, and Ann Druyan. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are. Random House, 1992, p. 273.
Millard and other racists ignorant of the human genome and science do not even realize that the thing they fear has already occurred tens of thousands of years ago. All humans, Blacks, Whites, Indians, Asians whatever all people alive today share the genes of Lucy, the oldest human discovered—she was Black and all other races as well as Blacks are descended from her and her contemporaries.
It is hard to tell what was the basis for Marti’s famous statement. We know now from modern DNA analysis and the human genome that we are all a single race but that was not known then. Many contemporaries thought he was speaking metaphorically, spiritually or religiously. In the view of Christ, there was only man. However, this was one of the first statements of this truth which at the time was not believed by almost everyone.
It was not until this publication that people who suggested that discrimination and lack of education and opportunity might have something to do with the problem Blacks faced in society were regarded by many Americans as anything but left wing intellectuals.
Bilbo was one of the worst racists who ever served in the Congress.
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages sent into space: the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages intended to be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them.
