Carl Sagan Quotes
There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.
Sagan, Carl. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space. Random House, 1994, p. 3.
Germany had tried to invade Russia but it was too large for the resources that Germany devoted to it. The Russians took huge civilian and military casualties (22 million) but with U. S. material supplies, they bogged the Germans down and eventually Hitler under pressure from his generals, gave up the Russian invasion.
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.
