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We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The wareh… - Carl Sagan
" "We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of that memory is called the library. A
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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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"Eskiçağ dünyasının bilimini çok aştık. Fakat bilim tarihine ilişkin bilgilerimizde büyük boşluklar var. Bunları doldurmak olanaksız. Günümüzde bir kitaplık okuyucusunun hangi kitabı okuduğunu gösteren kart gibi o zamanki bir kart elimize geçse kim bilir ne bilgiler edinebilir? Biliyoruz ki, Berossus adında Babilli bir rahibin yazdığı üç ciltlik "Dünya Tarihi" kayıptır. Bu kitabın ilk cildinin dünyanın yaratılışından Tufan'a kadar uzanan dönemi içerdiği sanılıyor. Sözü geçen kitapta yazar, bu dönemi 432.000 yıl olarak belirttiğine göre, Tevrat kronolojisinin yüz katı bir zamanı kapsıyor demektir. Merak ederim, acaba o kitapta ne vardı?..."
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