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Tag Archives: Carl Sagan
Made of Stardust
Today, I am remembering a childhood hero, astrophysicist/author Carl Sagan. I was 12 when I bought his first book, Planets, from the Life Science Series. I paid for it from money I earned picking potatoes on the family farm in … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, People, Philosophy
Tagged Carl Sagan, Planets, science quotes, stardust
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The Greatest Science Quotes
Do you mentally collect and muse over science quotes? Some reasonably good web sites have already done this, but so far none of those sites has my all-time favourite. It’s obscure. It was spoken by a geophysicist fifty years ago … Continue reading
Posted in History, How Geophysics Works, Philosophy, Plate Tectonics
Tagged Carl Sagan, Einstein, Jason Morgan, science quotes
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The Old Bird Sits Up
Readers of this blog know that I have sometimes pointed at Emperor Lord Kelvin’s fragile suit of clothing. Although his early life was crammed with brilliant science, he was a fumbling troglodyte by age 50. He became resistant to scientific … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, History, How Geophysics Works, Religion
Tagged Canada, Carl Sagan, Darwin, geophysics, heat physics, history, inner Earth, Lord Kelvin, Rutherford
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