Sagan, Eternal We lost Carl Sagan 16 years ago today. He has touched people’s lives, in life and in death, in ways that are difficult to put in to words. He was not only a wonderful teacher, but also someone who lit the fires of curiosity in those who learned from him. In that way, we have each been able to light our way to new knowledge, on paths of our own design. If I am a teacher of any measure, in any form, it is because of people like Carl Sagan. Remember him with this beautiful animated rendition of his finest ode to the cosmos, Pale Blue Dot: I’ll leave this open for replies, a tribute wall to Carl Sagan. I’d love to hear your thoughts and remembrances. If Carl was here today, what would you say to him?
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Sagan, Eternal

We lost Carl Sagan 16 years ago today. He has touched people’s lives, in life and in death, in ways that are difficult to put in to words. He was not only a wonderful teacher, but also someone who lit the fires of curiosity in those who learned from him. In that way, we have each been able to light our way to new knowledge, on paths of our own design.

If I am a teacher of any measure, in any form, it is because of people like Carl Sagan.

Remember him with this beautiful animated rendition of his finest ode to the cosmos, Pale Blue Dot:

I’ll leave this open for replies, a tribute wall to Carl Sagan. I’d love to hear your thoughts and remembrances. If Carl was here today, what would you say to him?

Stephen Hawking at 70: Fellow Scientists Pay Tribute His peers and colleagues offer tributes, including: He fits in as a person who dares to go out on the leading edge. One of the scientists today at this conference said, thank you Stephen for making life so difficult for us. What he meant by that was coming up with theories that send everybody scurrying, it just throws a spanner into the works. It challenges everybody all the time and that’s one of his greatest contributions. - Kitty Ferguson I think he is simply a miracle of nature and, of course, he did a lot of influential things that helped us theorists, from entropy in black holes to Hawking radiation. The combination of his handicapped position combined with his enormous psychological and rational state is fantastic. - Jiri Bicak It is amazing that [his work] came from somebody with his condition, but it’s even more amazing that it came from one person at all. - Steven Carlip (via The Guardian)
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Stephen Hawking at 70: Fellow Scientists Pay Tribute

His peers and colleagues offer tributes, including:

He fits in as a person who dares to go out on the leading edge. One of the scientists today at this conference said, thank you Stephen for making life so difficult for us. What he meant by that was coming up with theories that send everybody scurrying, it just throws a spanner into the works. It challenges everybody all the time and that’s one of his greatest contributions. - Kitty Ferguson

I think he is simply a miracle of nature and, of course, he did a lot of influential things that helped us theorists, from entropy in black holes to Hawking radiation. The combination of his handicapped position combined with his enormous psychological and rational state is fantastic. - Jiri Bicak

It is amazing that [his work] came from somebody with his condition, but it’s even more amazing that it came from one person at all. - Steven Carlip

(via The Guardian)