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Thursday, November 9, 2023

Happy Sagan Day

It's the birthday of the man that Smithsonian Magazine called "truly irreplaceable": that's astronomer Carl Sagan, born in Brooklyn (1934)...
https://open.substack.com/pub/thewritersalmanac/p/the-writers-almanac-from-thursday-0a1?r=35ogp&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

 

 


* “My parents taught me that the provable, tangible, verifiable things were sacred, that sometimes the most astonishing ideas are clearly profound, but when they get labeled as "facts", we lose sight of their beauty. It doesn't have to be this way. Science is the source of so much insight worthy of ecstatic celebration.”

“Growing up in our home, there was no conflict between science and spirituality. My parents taught me that nature as revealed by science was a source of great, stirring pleasure. Logic, evidence, and proof did not detract from the feeling that something was transcendent—quite the opposite. It was the source of its magnificence.”

― Sasha Sagan, For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World

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