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El universo no requiere estar en harmonía perfecta con la ambición humana. Carl Sagan sagansense: “The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.” •Carl Sagan

El universo no requiere estar en harmonía perfecta con la ambición humana.

Carl Sagan

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“The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.” •Carl Sagan

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Que cosa tan maravillosa es un libro, la escritura es quizá la mas grande de las invenciones humanas.

Carl Sagan

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Somos materia estelar. cherry-fields: I’m star stuff (:

Somos materia estelar.

cherry-fields:

I’m star stuff (:

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Casual, at The Edge of Forever.

Casual, at The Edge of Forever.

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100. CARL SAGAN: Pale blue dot

Carl Sagan is someone I admire greatly. More than any other writer, Sagan opened my eyes to the wonders of the universe, the beauty of science and the incredible achievements of humanity.

“Allá arriba, en la inmensidad del cosmos, una ineludible perspectiva nos espera. Las fronteras no son evidentes cuando vemos la tierra desde el espacio. El fanatismo étnico o religioso o las identidades nacionales son un poco difíciles de justificar cuando vemos nuestro planeta como una esfera creciente azul y frágil, desvaneciéndose hasta convertirse en un discreto punto de luz contra el bastión y ciudadela de las estrellas.” Carl Sagan Feliz año 2013, que en cada uno de nuestros universos personales la senda sea bienaventurada. Up there in the immensity of the Cosmos, an inescapable perception awaits us. National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic, religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.

“Allá arriba, en la inmensidad del cosmos, una ineludible perspectiva nos espera. Las fronteras no son evidentes cuando vemos la tierra desde el espacio. El fanatismo étnico o religioso o las identidades nacionales son un poco difíciles de justificar cuando vemos nuestro planeta como una esfera creciente azul y frágil, desvaneciéndose hasta convertirse en un discreto punto de luz contra el bastión y ciudadela de las estrellas.”

Carl Sagan

Feliz año 2013, que en cada uno de nuestros universos personales la senda sea bienaventurada.

Up there in the immensity of the Cosmos, an inescapable perception awaits us. National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic, religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”
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Carl Sagan (via evolvedaily)

people who quote Sagan are cool.

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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

Carl Sagan

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Make the most of this life.

Make the most of this life.

fyeahcarlsagan:

Here at fyeahcarlsagan, we like to keep it classy.

This is a highly professional blog.

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We found each other in the cosmos…

“When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me — it still sometimes happens — and ask me if Carl changed at the end & converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again.

Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don’t ever expect to be reunited with Carl. But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting. Every single moment that we were alive and we were together was miraculous - not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance… That pure chance could be so generous and so kind… That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space and the immensity of time… That we could be together for twenty years. That is something which sustains me and it’s much more meaningful…

The way he treated me and the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other and our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday. I don’t think I’ll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful.”

Ann Druyan, about her husband Carl Sagan

Ser un ciudadano del COSMOS!

Ser un ciudadano del COSMOS!

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From the Cells to the Stars This work, titled, “From the Cells to the Stars,” was painted by artist Michele Banks to in honor of her friend Cathy, who passed in August after a five-year battle with cancer. Not wanting to create another “cancer painting,” Banks drew her inspiration for the piece from Carl Sagan’s memorable quote that humans are all made of “star stuff.” As she explained on her blog: I was reading about astronomer Carl Sagan, who often expressed the idea that humans are made of “star stuff”. That is, that all the basic elements of life on earth derive from “space debris” from the gigantic explosions of massive, ancient stars. This concept is at once so simple and so mind-boggling that it’s a struggle to absorb, much less to express artistically. I started looking around for ideas of how to visually portray the basic elements such as hydrogen, helium and nitrogen. Um. This is difficult, because you can’t see them. If you do a Google image search on Carbon, it comes up with a lot of gray-black cars. But when I thought about how the elements were released, I found supernovas. Not only are supernovas beautiful and awe-inspiring, they bear a strong resemblance to dividing cells, especially explosively dividing cancer cells. Here’s the other thing. Carl Sagan also had [myelodysplastic syndrome]. He underwent three bone marrow transplants before he died in 1996. So this painting, besides celebrating the cosmic connection that all living creatures share, goes out to Cathy and Carl. From the infinitely tiny cells deep in the marrow of their bones, to the billions of stars in the sky. Image courtesy Michele Banks

From the Cells to the Stars

This work, titled, “From the Cells to the Stars,” was painted by artist Michele Banks to in honor of her friend Cathy, who passed in August after a five-year battle with cancer. Not wanting to create another “cancer painting,” Banks drew her inspiration for the piece from Carl Sagan’s memorable quote that humans are all made of “star stuff.” As she explained on her blog:

I was reading about astronomer Carl Sagan, who often expressed the idea that humans are made of “star stuff”. That is, that all the basic elements of life on earth derive from “space debris” from the gigantic explosions of massive, ancient stars. This concept is at once so simple and so mind-boggling that it’s a struggle to absorb, much less to express artistically. I started looking around for ideas of how to visually portray the basic elements such as hydrogen, helium and nitrogen. Um. This is difficult, because you can’t see them. If you do a Google image search on Carbon, it comes up with a lot of gray-black cars. But when I thought about how the elements were released, I found supernovas. Not only are supernovas beautiful and awe-inspiring, they bear a strong resemblance to dividing cells, especially explosively dividing cancer cells.

Here’s the other thing. Carl Sagan also had [myelodysplastic syndrome]. He underwent three bone marrow transplants before he died in 1996. So this painting, besides celebrating the cosmic connection that all living creatures share, goes out to Cathy and Carl. From the infinitely tiny cells deep in the marrow of their bones, to the billions of stars in the sky.

Image courtesy Michele Banks

La importancia de el ¨AHORA¨

The importance of the ¨NOW¨ 

Todos estamos hechos de lo mismo, materia estelar.  Happy Carl Sagan Day! :-)

Todos estamos hechos de lo mismo, materia estelar. 

Happy Carl Sagan Day! :-)

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