Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
Nationality American
I went to the librarian and asked for a book about stars ...
And the answer was stunning. It was that the Sun
was a star but really close. The stars were suns, but
so far away they were just little points of light ... The
scale of the universe suddenly opened up to me. It
was a kind of religious experience. There was a
magnificence to it, a grandeur, a scale which has
never left me. Never ever left me.
Inquisitiveness about nature
His parents helped nurture his growing interest in
science by buying him chemistry sets and
reading materials. His interest in space, however,
was his primary focus, especially after reading
science fiction stories by writers such as H. G.
Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs, which stirred his
imagination about life on other planets such
as Mars.