If stones could philosophize, I imagine Lithic Principles would be at the intellectual frontiers. - Carl Sagan

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If stones could philosophize, I imagine Lithic Principles would be at the intellectual frontiers.

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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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All colours are arbitrary.

Для многих американцев коммунизм – это бедность, отсталость, ГУЛАГ в наказание за искренность, жестокое подавление человеческого духа и безудержное стремление завоевать весь мир. Для многих советских людей капитализм – это бездушная и ненасытная алчность, расизм, война, экономическая нестабильность и всемирный заговор богатых против бедных. Это, хотя они и возникли не на пустом месте, карикатуры, которым действия Советов и Америки со временем придали определенную достоверность и убедительность.

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If we are not graced with an instinctive knowledge of how to make our technologized world a safe and balanced ecosystem, we must figure out how to do it. We need more scientific research and more technological restraint. It is probably too much to hope that some great Ecosystem Keeper in the sky will reach down and put right our environmental abuses. It is up to us.
It should not be impossibly difficult. Birds—whose intelligence we tend to malign—know not to defile the nest. Shrimps with brains the size of lint particles know it. Algae know it. One-celled microorganisms know it. It is time for us to know it too.

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