Carl Sagan’s Death – Cause and Date

The astronomer Carl Sagan died at the age of 62. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Astronomer whose love of space inspired readers and TV viewers to look to the stars. He is best known for co-writing and narrating the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage.

He married his third wife, Ann Druyan, in 1981.

Quotes

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“Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.” (Carl Sagan)

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“We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.” (Carl Sagan)

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“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.” (Carl Sagan)

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“It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” (Carl Sagan)

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“In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.” (Carl Sagan)