![]() ![]() ![]() Hardly anyone who knew Carl Sagan intimately has an unmixed opinion of him. These included friends who worshiped him, although he hurt them wives who were entranced by his passions, although they were enragedīy his absenteeism and often illogical "logic" sons who were enthralled by his example, even as they struggled to escape his shadow and colleagues who envied and honored him, even while they scorned his wilder This vision blinded Sagan, sometimes, to the needs of the people around him. Spawned creeping, crawling, thinking creatures on alien landscapes bathed in the glow of alien suns. ![]() And across the light-years, Sagan dreamed, random molecular jigglings had perhaps This cosmos was an ever-expanding, unbounded wonderland of billions of galaxies. Unveiled by science during the first two decades of his life. He was blinded by the sheer glory of the new cosmos that was Marriage, children, a nine-to-five career, and obeisance to a waving flag and an inscrutable God-are all there is. He refuses to think that modern society and its trappings-money, A visionary dreams of a better world than this one. Yet reason usually brought him back to Earth. Glistening civilizations across the Milky Way. He yearned to believe in marvelous things-in flying saucers, in Martians, in ![]() All his life, Carl Sagan was troubled by grand dichotomies-between reason and irrationalism, between wonder and skepticism. ![]()
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