Recently a colleague from work, DR, introduced me to a trippy video montage in which Carl Sagan is made to sing. Aside from being a technological piece of slickness, I found myself thinking about the early years when I used to watch the Cosmos series on PBS. I must have been in middle school and I remember thinking it was interesting and a bit odd at the same time.
Now, so many years later, it seems that Sagan had a bigger influence on me than I thought. Why did I major in Physics? Why do I find science fiction irrestistable? Why am I now a science educator? Why do I love those moments in the curriculum when I get to stick in my (or is Sagan's?) two cents in on how we are tiny little creatures on the surface of a moderately sized rock orbiting a below average star in the backwaters of some rinky-dink galaxy?
But isn't it that super-cool: making you feel special and humble at the same time?
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch - you must first invent the universe"
omg. that song and video is so you, it's not even funny.
ReplyDeleteSagan was definitely my primary inspiration for science, and for rational thought in general. Years later I too come back to thinking about him, and he seems an even greater treasure for the world, and it's too bad we lost him.
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