"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human bei… - Carl Sagan

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam"

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About Carl Sagan

Carl Edward Sagan (9 November 1934 – 20 December 1996) 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 that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them. Sagan argued the hypothesis, accepted since, that the high surface temperatures of Venus can be attributed to, and calculated using, the greenhouse effect. He testified to the US Congress in 1985 that the greenhouse effect will change the earth's climate system.

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Native Name: Carl Edward Sagan
Alternative Names: Sagan Carl E. Sagan Carl E Sagan C. E. Sagan C.E. Sagan C E Sagan C. Sagan C Sagan Sagan C Sagan C. Sagan C. E. Sagan CE
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Тези, които търсят власт на всяка цена, забелязват обществената слабост — някакъв страх, който могат да яхнат, и така да стигнат до високите постове. Това може да са етнически различия — както е в този случай — или може би различно количество меланин в кожата; някоя различна философия или религия; а защо не употребата на наркотици, проявите на насилие, икономическата криза, молитвата в училище или поругаването (английският глагол desecrate означава буквално „правя несвещен“) на националното знаме.
Какъвто и да е проблемът, бързото решение е да се премахнат част от свободите в Декларацията за правата на гражданите. Да, през 1942 г. американците от японски произход бяха защитени от Декларацията за правата, но ние все пак ги затворихме — в крайна сметка се водеше война. Да, има конституционни забрани срещу безпричинните обиски и арести, но водим война срещу наркотиците, а престъпността излиза от контрол. Да, има свобода на словото, но нали не искаме тук да се мотаят чужди автори и да проповядват чужди идеологии? Претекстът се променя всяка година, но резултатът е същият: концентриране на повече власт в по-малко ръце и потискане на различните мнения — дори и когато опитът ясно показва рисковете от подобни действия.

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