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A very few people leave an impression so great that the lives they change go on to change the world. Carl Sagan is one of those people. The young people he in
by jaysonelliot 16y ago
A very few people leave an impression so great that the lives they change go on to change the world.
Carl Sagan is one of those people.
The young people he inspired to choose careers in science, or just to have a love of science that makes our society stronger, are innumerable.
I hope that kids growing up today have role models as amazing as Dr. Sagan.
- mkr-hn 16y agoNeil deGrasse Tyson
- burke 16y agoDon't get me wrong, Neil deGrasse Tyson is a brilliant guy, and he's doing more for science education than almost anyone else alive today, but Sagan had a real talent for being profoundly inspiring on a deeper level.
- mkr-hn 16y agoWhat we need to do is merge the brains of Neil deGrasse Tyson, Stephen Hawking, and Michio Kaku.
- bane 16y agobut Sagan had a real talent for being profoundly inspiring on a deeper level There's still time left! Tyson has offered up some of the most philosophically profound notions I've probably heard since Sagan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-uZZ7RdL5E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-uZZ7RdL5E He has an amazing talent to boil down complex science into engaging communications that regular 'ol folks like myself can understand, yet still rich enough as to make me think about the topic for a terribly long time afterwards.