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What a waste it would be after 4 billion tortuous years of evolution if the dominant organism contrived its own self-destruction," Carl Sagan, popular guardian of the cosmos and professor of astronomy at Cornell, told a crowd of 2,000 in Ithaca, N.Y. "We are the first species to have devised the means." George Kistiakowsky, an adviser to President Dwight Eisenhower who had worked on the Manhattan Project, told a Harvard audience: "If I knew then what I know now, I never would have helped to develop the bomb." At U.C.L.A., Governor Jerry Brown declared: "It's possible...
...Cosmos, Sagan...
...Carl Sagan likes to point out, our planetary neighbor Venus seems less the goddess of love than the incarnation of hell. Wrapped in a dense carbon dioxide atmosphere with clouds of sulfuric acid, it is a Dantesque world where surface temperatures reach a lead-melting 900° F and atmospheric pressures are 90 times greater than those on earth. In so grim an environment no life could exist...
...Cosmos, Sagan...
...Cosmos, Sagan...