Along with Carl Sagan and Steven Soter, Druyan was one of the three writers of the TV series COSMOS and a producer for the motion picture CONTACT.

Dr. Carl Sagan, using optimistic numbers, suggested as many as one million communicating civilizations in the Milky Way in 1966, though he later suggested that the actual number could be far smaller.

Isaac Asimov described Minsky as one of only two people he would admit were more intelligent than he was, the other being Carl Sagan.

He is one of the pioneers of the modern field of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence with Giuseppe Cocconi, Philip Morrison, Iosif Shklovsky, and Carl Sagan.

In 1966, when Däniken was writing his first book, scientists Carl Sagan and I. S. Shklovskii, wrote about the possibility of paleocontact and extraterrestrial visitation claims in one chapter of their book Intelligent Life in the Universe, giving some scientific legitimacy to the idea.

A longtime friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, he was the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology ( Caltech ) until 2009 and one of the world ’ s leading experts on the astrophysical implications of Einstein ’ s general theory of relativity.

** Revised and extended English translation of this book, coauthored with Carl Sagan, was first published in 1966, under the name Intelligent Life in the Universe, one of the latest reissues was published in 1998 by Emerson-Adams Press ( ISBN 1-892803-02-X )

His message mentioned his recent trip on the Space Shuttle and was one of 33 such by notable individuals including Caesar Chavez, Coretta Scott King, Carl Sagan, Jesse Jackson and Peter Ueberroth.

The man asked what a comet was, and Sagan answered that it was " a snowball, one mile wide ".

Years later, Carl Sagan reported how Condon described one encounter with a loyalty review board.

According to one hypothesis, Němcová could have been born three to four years earlier than previously thought, and be an illegitimate daughter of Wilhelmine, Duchess of Sagan ( 1781-1839 ).

Marie Pierre Camille Louis Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince of Sagan and fifth Duke of Talleyrand, was a principal in one of the international marriage of the first decade of this century.

He is best known for his Academy Award-winning score for the film Chariots of Fire, composing scores for the films Blade Runner, 1492: Conquest of Paradise and Alexander, and the use of his music in the PBS documentary Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan.

Grinspoon also appeared in the Canadian documentary The Union: The Business Behind Getting High and discussed the pharmaceutical characteristics of marinol, as well as his writing experiences with Carl Sagan.

* Carl Sagan, American astronomer, in an essay on his experiences with marijuana

Sagan said he took this stance not because he thought astrology had any validity, but because he thought that the tone of the statement was authoritarian, and that dismissing astrology because there was no mechanism ( while " certainly a relevant point ") was not in itself convincing.

She made substantial contributions to the PBS documentary series Cosmos and was the third wife of the late Carl Sagan.

Carl Edward Sagan (; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996 ) was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences.

Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn, New York ,.

His father, Sam Sagan, was an immigrant garment worker from Russia.

Both Sagan and his sister agree that their father was not especially religious, but that their mother " definitely believed in God, and was active in the temple ... and served only Kosher meat ".

Sagan, however, was generally unaware of the details of the ongoing war.

From 1960 to 1962 Sagan was a Miller Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.

From 1972 to 1981, Sagan was the Associate Director of the Center for Radio Physics and Space Research at Cornell.

Sagan was associated with the U. S. space program from its inception.

Sagan assembled the first physical message that was sent into space: a gold-anodized plaque, attached to the space probe Pioneer 10, launched in 1972.

Sagan taught a course on critical thinking at Cornell University until he died in 1996 from pneumonia, a few months after finding that he was in remission of myelodysplastic syndrome.

The particles were never observed to rise above 6 km and when combined with scavenging by clouds gave the smoke a short residency time in the atmosphere and localized its effects ; Professor Carl Sagan of the Turco, Toon, Ackerman, Pollack, Sagan ( TTAPS ) study hypothesized in January 1991 that enough smoke from the fires " might get so high as to disrupt agriculture in much of South Asia ...." Sagan later conceded in his book The Demon-Haunted World that this prediction did not turn out to be correct: " it was pitch black at noon and temperatures dropped 4 °– 6 ° C over the Persian Gulf, but not much smoke reached stratospheric altitudes and Asia was spared.

Sagan recalled taking his first trips to the public library alone, at the age of five, when his mother got him a library card.

Sagan lectured and did research at Harvard University until 1968, when he moved to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York after being denied tenure at Harvard.

In the Carl Sagan novel, Contact, the protagonist, Eleanor Arroway, is reading the A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, specifically the scene where Hank first approaches Camelot, when she finds out about her father's death.

Sagan states that when new ideas are offered for consideration, they should be tested by means of skeptical thinking, and should stand up to rigorous questioning.

The existence of Project A119 remained largely secret until the mid-1990s, when writer Keay Davidson discovered the story while researching the life of Carl Sagan for a biography.

" Though the project name was strictly internal and never used in public marketing, when Sagan learned of this internal usage he sued Apple Computer to force the use of a different project name.

It was flown half staff when Carl Sagan died.

The series was also inspirational for many scientists in the fields of space exploration and the search for extraterrestrial life, including Carl Sagan, who read A Princess of Mars when he was a child.

Carl Sagan gave the phrase more publicity when he praised Moondance magazine writer Daniela Gioseffi's American Book Award winner Women on War:

Director Sagan would have preferred Gina Falckenberg who had done the role on stage in Berlin, but along with having played Manuela in Leipzig, Thiele had already played a young lesbian in Ferdinand Bruckner's stage play Die Kreatur ( The Creature ) and although twenty-three years old when filming began, she was considered to be more capable of portraying a fourteen-year-old.

It was formed in 1952 when Bhadase Sagan Maraj engineered the merger of the Satanan Dharma Association and the Sanatan Dharma Board of Control.

The greatest development in the Hindu communal activity in Trinidad began in 1952 when under the guidance and direction of powerful Pundit Goberdhan JP of Siparia old Road, south Trinidad ( who acted as a representative of the Governor general of Trinidad at difficult times ) Bhadase Sagan Maraj united the Sanatan Dharma Association and the Sanatan Dharma Board of Control.

Astronomer Carl Sagan relates an anecdote on page 80 of his book Cosmos about being on duty in an observatory near Chicago in 1957 when a late night phone call from an inebriated man asked what was the " fuzzy thing " they were seeing in the sky.

The term was used as early as 1973, when scientist Carl Sagan described it and other human chauvinisms that limit imagination of possible extraterrestrial life.

Carl Sagan has expressed skepticism about contactees and alien contact in general, remarking that aliens seem very happy to answer vague questions but when confronted with specific, technical questions they are silent:

* Howard de Talleyrand, duc de Sagan ( 1909-1929 ), he took his own life when told he could not marry.