#Sagan on Writing
Posted: May 3, 2010 Filed under: Deep | Tags: deep thoughts Leave a comment »Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.
- Carl Sagan, “Cosmos”
Matter is Composed Chiefly of Nothing
Posted: April 21, 2010 Filed under: Environment, Technology | Tags: deep thoughts, phish, solar power Leave a comment »- Sagan:
Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.
- Dog One posts audio of Phish covering “Emotional Rescue,” among others.
- NYT’s Green blog covers a big solar project.
Audio: #Sagan Explains 10 to the Power 100
Posted: April 19, 2010 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: deep thoughts Leave a comment »Sagan: The Cosmos is Rich Beyond Measure
Posted: April 12, 2010 Filed under: Deep | Tags: deep thoughts Leave a comment »
What we see at night is the merest smattering of the nearest stars with a few more distant bright stars thrown in for good measure. Meanwhile, the cosmos is rich beyond measure. The total number of stars in the universe is larger than all of the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet earth.
–Carl Sagan, “Cosmos”
A Good Groove
Posted: April 5, 2010 Filed under: Artists, Deep | Tags: deep thoughts, Stanley Clarke Leave a comment »A friend emails of a tantalizing upcoming gig in my neighborhood:
Stanley Clarke is playing Blues Alley with Lenny White and this amazing young Japanese fusion piano player named Hiromi.
Also, this evening my younger son, who is around a year old, requested some music (pointing toward Bose). I put on some decent kiddie folk. You know, acoustic guitars, songs about friends, that kind of thing. Not much reaction. Then, on the advice of my older son, I switched to Michael Jackson: “Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough.” Everybody, including the little guy, started freaking out, dancing. A good groove is universal.
Sagan on Where We Are
Posted: April 1, 2010 Filed under: Deep | Tags: deep thoughts 1 Comment »
- We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a hum drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
- Carl Sagan, “Cosmos”
Sagan on the Exploration of the Cosmos
Posted: March 28, 2010 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Carl Sagan, deep thoughts Leave a comment »
- The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery.
Carl Sagan, “Cosmos”
This One Goes Out to Max
Posted: March 22, 2010 Filed under: Deep | Tags: deep thoughts Leave a comment »
- There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right. It’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.
- In the cosmos, there is no refuge from change.
– Carl Sagan, “Cosmos”
More Sagan
Posted: March 8, 2010 Filed under: Deep | Tags: Carl Sagan, deep thoughts 2 Comments »I’m really enjoying ‘Cosmos.’ More deep thoughts than you can shake a stick at. Here are two more.
- Within us is a little universe.
- The molecules of life fill the cosmos.
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Sagan on the Dinosaurs
Posted: March 7, 2010 Filed under: Deep | Tags: Carl Sagan, deep thoughts Leave a comment »
Even 160 million years on a planet is no guarantee of survival.
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
