Carl Sagan's last interview with Charlie Rose (Full Interview)
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Published 2012-04-19
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My favorite Sagan quote is this: "One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply to painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back." Carl Sagan
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“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” ~Isaac Asimov
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He'd be 85 today. It'd be nice to have had him around for the last 25 years.
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20 years ago Sagan was predicting the nightmare of ignorance we are living through today.
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This man was a lone lighthouse in the darkness. We need him more now than ever. Truly an inspirational way to think and act.
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Every time I watch a Sagan video, it breaks my heart. 27 years later it's almost as if we haven't learned anything and He would be so disappointed and the same time we really need someone like him being a candle in today's darkness
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"Better by far, to embrace a hard truth than a reassuring fable." -Carl Sagan
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He died in 1996, yet his words have never been more insightful and valid as they are today. Amazing interview.
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My eyes teared up seeing how fragile he looks, I want to hug him, and say thank you. The man was a poet and an inspiration to life.
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At 80 years old i still can't read "the pale blue dot" without a tear for the wisdom beyond the scientific knowledge that mankind has lost. His influence has emotionally influenced me for life in the best way
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A most beautiful human being...thank you for having inhabited this planet, Carl. You surely were one of the best of us.
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I fall asleep listening to Segan about 2-3 nites per week on average for the last several yrs. I’ve re-listened to Pale Blue Dot at least a dozen times. He’s brilliant and an amazing orator, with beautiful articulation, voice cadence and flow. Tell your kids to listen to this man, to read his work. Let’s keep Segan alive
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This man was 100% the reason I turned toward science as a career. The Cosmos series and his book The Demon Haunted World literally changed my life. He died 20 years ago. RIP.
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20 years and he still generates immense feelings in people who never met him, and live thousands of miles from where he roamed. Beautiful!
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Carl Sagan was such a brilliant man. He could understand complexities & then explain them to the average person in understandable terms. That is such a gift. I miss him tremendously.
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The depth of the loss of Sagan is only overtaken by the depressing realization that no one has been able to fill his shoes.
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The world is a poorer place without Carl.
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When Dr. Sagan died I felt like I lost my father. He was truly the most influential individual in my life and his books and television shows inspired me like no other. Its a shame that no one since has emerged to take up the challenge of promoting common sense, critical thinking,science, skepticism and responsible technology.
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Some people should be immortal.. Carl Sagan is one of them.. world misses him terribly..
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More & more, in my senior years, I read, listen & watch Carl Sagan. In this terrifying world we are living in, I feel I can find some peace & sense through his philosophy. We desperately need another Carl Sagan…
