Carl Sagan was dead right about science, nobody seems to care or try to understand it. Here's a demonstration: How many people know of Justin Bebier? And many people know of Carl Sagan?
@MassLiberal1 I believe the "fatih Carl, faith." statement wasn't a refusal to hear the deconstruction of the same old same old but rather an unintentional rebuttal. The argument would go something along the lines of "Faith is something that goes beyond science as a result of its simplicity." Again, I don't think this was his, word for word, thoughts but I think that was his jest. Note that this is coming from an Atheist lol.
did carl just compare those fundamentalist assholes in the united states to european people who know very well the difference between faith and scientifically prooven facts?
Eternal sleep with no dreams! No more pain,stress,hardship,worry, etc etc. Sounds ok to me. Especially knowing that i`ve actually been lucky enough to have lived and experienced this amazing planet and all the atoms that now make up my body will go on to make something else.Who needs to believe in the god or afterlife bullshit story. The truth is far more majestic. Enjoy your sleep Carl cos the only people it bothers are those of us left behind. Cos WE Miss You!
i wish we could unlearn language . i only understand by one instant of eye contact , i feel anything past that , is away from their true response . intentionally or not. please dont look at me .
I am so honored to have lived when he did. Carl has been my biggest role model for almost my entire life, ever since the first time I learned about him in Cosmos and through Contact. He will always live on in me. I'm sure another star was lit in our beautiful night sky when you past on. Safe winds, good sir...
It always bothers me the way Charlie Rose interviews. He asks good questions, but he always tries to answer the interviewee's sentences. It's very irritating.
15 years have passed since Carl Sagan's death but through the means of technology we can see his image, hear his voice, read his books and process his ideas. Technology is amazing indeed. Thank you, Carl Sagan and thank you all people who dedicated their lives to make a better and more comfortable world. Next destination: the stars.
@realshompa Lol, it would have been a clash. In case you aren't aware of this, Steve Jobs was a business-man, a staunch supporter of intellectual property which goes against not only the beliefs of Carl, but the foundation of human scientific progress itself. If you imagine them having a friendly laughing discussion, you're kidding yourself, Carl wasn't the type to have that sort of conversation with a Steve Jobs, a polar opposite in regards to his opinions about human interaction.
@oscarthebanana maybe cos he focussed all his energy on the truth of here! that we are still (to our knowledge) the only living things in the cosmos, all right here?
@Innoz1337 I'm drooling at the thought of a meritocratic technocracy.. It lifts my feelings to know their is another human being around with a similar vision.
These interviews are wonderful. Thank you for making them available. Hearing Dr. Sagan speak always reawakens and re-instills a sense of wonder for me. the world was a better place for having had him in it.
Carl isn't looking down at us from heaven, which is what I like to think he would have wanted. Yet he's still here in all he wrote and said. So sad he went, I shall mourn him, yet take pride in all that he taught.
No. When one claims something is true or exists, the burden of proof is on the party making the claim. There is a unicorn in my back yard right now! Believe me? I'll bet not but according to your thought process it could very well be there. For anyone to think like this, it is no more than wishful thinking.
CARL SAGAN - "Almost no one attempts to educate themselves on the basics of science and technology, yet our society is based on these. TV takes up far too much of our time and is apparently much more attractive to most of us than the beauty and wonder of science. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces." - CARL SAGAN
@Xs10sb4SNs Too true, it was the great man himself that said 'Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence'. Don't discount it, but without evidence you shouldn't believe it either.
@Xs10sb4SNs It's not a sign of weakness in and of itself to be afraid to die. You can be an atheist and still fear death, they are not mutually exclusive.
Come on people. Charlie Rose was just joking around when he said, "Faith Carl, faith". Who really believes he was trying to convert Sagan to magical thinking?
@daniel1c Yes. And additionally, Carl Sagan lived with other very serious medical conditions for his entire life. If you're interested in the subject, I recommend watching an interview series with his widow. It's called At Home in the Cosmos.
I CANT BELIEVE IT AT THIS DAY AND AGE. ARE WE THIS DUMB. REALLY BELIEVE THAT INVISIBLE PEOPLE ARE IN CHARGE OF THE SOCIETY, OF GREED AND DESTRUCTION. SAGAN TALKED BOUT PEACE AND GETTING ALONG THROUGH EDUCATION. ROSE WAS WRONG IN IS PERSECUTION OF SAGAN
@vardema11 There are more and more people discovering the sciences are demonstrating certain truths and facts of our world....Rose is just making his show more interesting rather than just agreeing with every statement Carl was making. It's all good.
@moonboots69 There were people just like that in Carl's day, and he completely wiped the floor with them. He debated and trounced Immanuel Velikovsky who postulated that Venus was part of Jupiter that became detached, floated by the earth, and its tidal force created Noah's flood.
i hate how that mofo host tried to ask him if he would accept god before he dies, he didnt directly ask him but he got close to ask him somethin like that. goes to show how religion can give balls to some idiots to ask a person who is possibly dying about death and belief.
@minimano100 cmon it's obvious what the host was implying. I also found that very bold and insulting! You can have your own believes without trying to also throw them down someone else's throat while they are dying!! I understand believing in a father-like protective god makes the host feel (IMHO)ignorantly jolly and jokefull about death, but to some of us we find our own personal peace in death as an ultimate realization of how precious life is, and how amazing the universe is that supports it.
I'm often demoralized from seeing the direction many human beings have taken with their lives, subscribing to superstitions or religious dogma. It makes me lose faith in humanity and our vast potential.
However, watching these videos of Sagan, a great man to be remembered, I'm reminded that there are in fact many people out there today of similar values and perspectives, unafraid to submit to the primitive teachings of our wayward ancestors. Maybe there's hope for humanity after all.
"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."
A christian or any other religious theist would have been on their knees cringing & slobbering before their imaginary dictator god begging for more time, and/or the promise of a heaven, begging for forgiveness for any filthy sin remaining in their wretched souls, like the hypocrite cowards they are. Sagan, on the other hand, came to appreciate his life even more, took it like a man & lived his life to the fullest. And that, my freinds, is the difference.
Charlie Rose is being a whiny bitch throughout this whole interview... He tells a dying man "FAITH. FAITH CARL" as if he hasn't thought of that. What a fuckin douche
I think science and religion are completely unified and are both aproachable the same way. some theories or thoughts will show to stand up to truth while others will not.
@Territomauvais The only thing that I think is unfair about death--- applied equally to all, it is inherently just about the most fair thing there is--- is that when you are in oblivion after you die, being oblivious, nobody will be able to point out to you how ridiculous the fantasy of a supernatural afterlife really was and rub your nose in it a little.
I'm in my early 20's....and I just got introduced to this man a few weeks back, and my appreciation for this man would never go away!!! It's funny, how knowing this man only for a few weeks, and only on internet, and in books. I had a cringe inside of me, and I literally had water in my eyes. I mean the way he talks, so gental and yet so full of life.
Sagan: "I want to believe that there's something after"
Rose: "Faith Carl"
I dearly hope Sagan is traveling the universe :) NOW
While I disagree with his opinions on religion... I greatly respect the Late Mr. Sagan. It is sad watching this video, knowing that he passed away shortly thereafter.
his childhood during the depression and holocaust certainly impacted his scientific fervor to eliminate all possibilities of higher life forms than humans. However, his promulgation that "arrogance" leads us to disbelieve in aliens "without evidence otherwise" contrasts his total dismissal of a higher being (God). It is this arrogance of Sagan's which truly limited his full potential.
@bishop8000 I think that if there was an all merciful loving God than he wouldn't allow these horrible things as death and suffering to happen. Some creationists try to explain it away by saying that death and suffering exist for a reason (like punishment, a test or something good will come from it). Yet if God is all powerful than he wouldn't need death and suffering to test or punish etc., rendering all suffering unnecessary suffering which makes it even worse!
@DutchmanNL1988 It wouldn't be that God allowed or created these evil acts, it would be due to our finite minds being unable to comprehend the infinite powers of god. God would would be the creator of us, rational beings, and it would be us, who create the evil acts through misinterpreting what it is we were created for... or something along those lines I'm sure. The real worry for me is, If we suppose God did create the universe, what purpose does he have intended for us?
@HighPraetar Lol take it easy there cowboy. I'm not saying there is a God, I was just pointing out the errors in Dutchmans logic. What I was saying at the end is that I prefer not to believe in God because I don't want to imagine what plans a God would have with us mere mortals.
@bishop8000 You're a very spiteful person, from what I've read from your comments. I will never understand why so many atheists or agnostics are so hateful towards anyone who believes in God. I've never heard Dr. Sagan refer to God as an imaginary character or any such thing I constantly hear atheists say.
He wants evidence, there is none. Case closed. No need to be nasty towards others.
@bishop8000 It doesn't say anything... but if you're trying to make a certain point you should probably just state it instead of trying to bait people into a discussion about which you think you have something clever to say. In the Christian religion, it was not God who brought death into the world, it was man. As the Christian creation mythology has similar roots to that of Judaism and Islam, I would speculate that it's probably much the same in those religions as well.
@TomKaren1994 It was a rhetorical question space cadet. What it means is that from an ethical perspective, a god who permits death and suffering while having the power to stop it may just as well have caused it. Therefore, because there is unimaginable suffering in the world, if a god exists, that "god" is far more worthy of our contempt than are the greatest human mass murderers in history. THAT is what it says.
@bishop8000 Your comment is not original nor unique. It's been stated a billion times. The fallacy is that you are taking your perception of a human concept (ethics) and applying it to a being that by definition supercedes and is unbound by it. You might as well talk about "6 day" creation as if a creator being would be restricted by the concept of time. If you feel derision toward the concept of a deity, you only need to say so. Don't try to make arguments you yourself don't understand.
@TomKaren1994 "Your comment is not original nor unique. It's been stated a billion times."
It's the correct answer, I can't help if I wasn't the first person to say it.
Making a fiat statement that god is unbounded by time and ethics is a sneaky attempt to talk your way out of defending against a logical argument. The fallacy here is yours, it's called special pleading.
"Don't try to make arguments you yourself don't understand."
I understand them, it clearly is you who does not.
@bishop8000 It is not I who maintain there is a lack of boundaries for an omnipotent creator being. By its very nature, if it exists it would have to be so. Your position is that if YOU perceive something to be bad, an omnipotent being is somehow evil in nature if it allows it. It is not I whose argument is flawed by 'special pleading,' it is yours. You assume your perception and interpretation of the universe is perfect. Plus, you assume a role for such a being which may not exist.
@TomKaren1994 Most of this was pretty nonsensical, but I will again refute the central point. It argues that if god exists, god would be beyond human boundaries. The problem of course is that if unicorns, or any imaginary magical being exists, the same argument could be made, but it fails utterly to convince. Even if there was no question that a god existed, my criticism would be exactly the same: suffering exists, and a god with the power to stop it, is evil for not doing so.
@bishop8000 And what I want to know is how you came to the conclusion that it is your perception of what is categorized as "suffering" and "ethical" that should be the standard. Do you have some special insight into the nature of the universe that, by its very nature, eludes the rest of us? Perhaps you think Socrates' Allegory of the Cave is childish and based in simplistic ignorance? Gee, I wish I knew you... I'd be a smarter person just for the honor of being in your presence.
I suspect that at the moment of death , the essense of the one who inhabited as Carl Sagan, woke up from a deep sleep, and proclaimed, "I just had the most interesting dream" !
Carl´s atoms are now recycled in other forms of matter and energy, in the oxygen we breath, in the nitrogen of the soil, iron, phosphate, calcium, and all his energy recycled among us as well as his thoughts and wonderful lectures and wisdom he generously left behind for us.
This man was a true inspirationa;l genius, he had a certain way of making science and especially cosmology accessable to the average person. If only thee were more people in the world like him. You are missed Carl, but your legacy and impact will live on forever
Comparing the human wisdom of Carl Sagan with what passes for knowledge today is scary. His warning science has surpassed our understanding is evidenced in the explosions of Japan's nuclear reactors now spreading radioactivity around the world while our leader's call for more nuclear reactors. By our man made hole in the the ozone layer that protects us from the sun's radiation. By our refusal to deal with global warming/climate e change in any meaningful way. Will we destroy ourselves?
Wow that was really sad to see him saying the cancer was gone. Only six short months later he was dead. I really wish I had been old enough to appreciate him during his time on this Earth. But thank goodness for the internet for giving me such easy access to this man's legacy.
Carl Sagan was most definitely an atheist. Atheist being not believing in a God. He was agnostic to the idea (we can never know), but did he believe in any? No. Go Carl Sagan. Inspiration to humanity in every sense of the word
Carl Sagan is a great man and will always be, the way he teaches about the universe and other things is so glorious...he made me look at the universe and life from a whole new point of view...i will really miss him...
Rest In Peace Carl Sagan, may you sleep for the rest of eternity...floating in the vast ocean of space.
Dr Sagan, you are never dead among the millions and millions of people you inspired. Every time I hear the beautiful opening melody of Cosmos, I feel I can see you like long departed loved member of my own family. Dr Sagan, you were indeed a candle among the darkness of ignorance.
How deeply moving it is to watch an agnostic and probably an atheist to live and die in a multiple of degrees greater dignity than the most hardcore religious zealot. This man has embraced and accepted the world's stupidity (embrace is to acknowledge and respect) much like Jesus, yet he is no christian. However chances are that a serial killer in his early youth was being dragged from church to church.
@noir0222 Maybe. But how good is the evidence supporting that guess? Is it any better than the guess that if you howl at the moon tonight, you'll live forever?
This interview is strange, like the interviewer is trying to see things from carl's POV, but is struggling. The interviewer seems to be almost threatened by carls confident pov, and is trying to throw negative things at him trying to get a glimpse of self doubt. Honestly I think carl sagan has no self doubt, believes in his own views whole heartedly, and if you can't respect that shame on you man. The interviewer could only wish he had them same comfort in his own views, clearly religion
@pidromonz Carl Sagan was a master of creativity. But science deals with truth claims. We may imagine wonderfully strange things, but nature does not always conform to our preconceptions.
@adamsturgeon99 Every observation starts out as an observation.. From that observation we construct hypothesis to explain it. The ones that are best in line with further investigation become accepted as theories if the supporting evidence is strong enough.
Carl Sagan was dead right about science, nobody seems to care or try to understand it. Here's a demonstration: How many people know of Justin Bebier? And many people know of Carl Sagan?
cnn94001 5 days ago
@MassLiberal1 I believe the "fatih Carl, faith." statement wasn't a refusal to hear the deconstruction of the same old same old but rather an unintentional rebuttal. The argument would go something along the lines of "Faith is something that goes beyond science as a result of its simplicity." Again, I don't think this was his, word for word, thoughts but I think that was his jest. Note that this is coming from an Atheist lol.
CellE2057 5 days ago
Carl Sagan = Pure Awesomeness!
dreamvoidTV 1 week ago
Charlie Rose is a wiener, I've decided. After watching this whole interview, he's just amazingly good at pretending he has a clue what's being said.
ofnumbers 1 week ago 3
"A long dreamless sleep." Elegant way of putting it.
LiftYourSkinnyFist 1 week ago
That book is one of the best Ive read thus far.. Amazing man with a Passion for the TRUTH.
elchicho25 1 week ago
we must honor Carl by using the unit of measurement, a "sagan". It means equal to at least 4 billion.
jmontis2 1 week ago in playlist Carl Sagan's Last Interview
@jmontis2 to the power of...1'12....lol
hardergamer 30 minutes ago
did carl just compare those fundamentalist assholes in the united states to european people who know very well the difference between faith and scientifically prooven facts?
totzstangolo 2 weeks ago
@totzstangolo love man love!
RedValkyries 2 weeks ago
The problem with the last quote is that we all die and there will be a time when no man will be there to have memory of anything.
abortion4life666 1 month ago
Eternal sleep with no dreams! No more pain,stress,hardship,worry, etc etc. Sounds ok to me. Especially knowing that i`ve actually been lucky enough to have lived and experienced this amazing planet and all the atoms that now make up my body will go on to make something else.Who needs to believe in the god or afterlife bullshit story. The truth is far more majestic. Enjoy your sleep Carl cos the only people it bothers are those of us left behind. Cos WE Miss You!
spongebobbignob 1 month ago 9
i wish we could unlearn language . i only understand by one instant of eye contact , i feel anything past that , is away from their true response . intentionally or not. please dont look at me .
gillgumbgill 1 month ago
I am so honored to have lived when he did. Carl has been my biggest role model for almost my entire life, ever since the first time I learned about him in Cosmos and through Contact. He will always live on in me. I'm sure another star was lit in our beautiful night sky when you past on. Safe winds, good sir...
martinbondesson 1 month ago
truly amazing human being... I wish he had found what he was looking for in his scientific journeys.
Baberbabes 1 month ago
carl sagan, id buy ya a beer but your dead... next time buddy
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ricktbdgc 1 month ago
I have never been inspired like this, by anyone before. Carl you are and continue to be an inspiration
wingle007 1 month ago
just awe inspiring. an honour to live in your age. mdg
MDGravey15 1 month ago
What a truly wonderful person Carl was!
13aBOC 1 month ago
4 people are fundamentalists
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It's so sad when he said that he believed his myelodysplasia was gone and that he was very lucky :( :( :(. Why did he have to die so young! D:
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Jpear5000 1 month ago
It always bothers me the way Charlie Rose interviews. He asks good questions, but he always tries to answer the interviewee's sentences. It's very irritating.
frightenedsoul 1 month ago
"You imagine missing it all, and suddenly it's so much more precious"
MrBurghausen 1 month ago
CARL lives forever
TZMrazvitie 2 months ago
Charlie was a stud in the 90's. No wonder he got so much trim.
RollingOrmond 2 months ago
It's really sad that he died just a few months after this interview :(
Moh5Itachi1 2 months ago 6
My appreciation towards this man is immense.How I wish you were here Carl.
yofera50 2 months ago 4
Just finished Cosmos, also saw a documentary where his wife talks about how much she loves Marijuana lol
kingcarcas1349 2 months ago
Why couldn't I have met this man? At least seen him from a distance? Shook his hand? Something?
twostepRMX 2 months ago 4
15 years have passed since Carl Sagan's death but through the means of technology we can see his image, hear his voice, read his books and process his ideas. Technology is amazing indeed. Thank you, Carl Sagan and thank you all people who dedicated their lives to make a better and more comfortable world. Next destination: the stars.
Atenejin 2 months ago 8
I nearly cried at the end. Thank you, Carl.
SirMcMuffintosh 3 months ago 3
Miss you carl.
heavenonthewaydown 3 months ago 2
I would love to have Carl Sagan and Steve Jobs discussing the world. Two geniuses in different fields.
realshompa 3 months ago
@realshompa Lol, it would have been a clash. In case you aren't aware of this, Steve Jobs was a business-man, a staunch supporter of intellectual property which goes against not only the beliefs of Carl, but the foundation of human scientific progress itself. If you imagine them having a friendly laughing discussion, you're kidding yourself, Carl wasn't the type to have that sort of conversation with a Steve Jobs, a polar opposite in regards to his opinions about human interaction.
FuckFacts 2 months ago
You can’t convince a believer of anything, their belief is not based on evidence but a deep-seated need to believe. Carl Sagan
MrPersianpoetry 3 months ago
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z0rgz0rg 3 months ago
His last word in his last interview was, "here". For some reason I find this very symbolic but I don't know why...
oscarthebanana 3 months ago
@oscarthebanana maybe cos he focussed all his energy on the truth of here! that we are still (to our knowledge) the only living things in the cosmos, all right here?
MDGravey15 3 months ago
I always admired Carl Sagan. Thank you for posting this!
rillloudmother 4 months ago
In an alternate universe, in a meritocratic technocracy, he would have been president of the united earth..
Innoz1337 4 months ago 17
@Innoz1337 What a damn good comment. I can just imagine Carl welcoming some aliens to Earth with a handshake.
Imagine having someone like Carl Sagan as our representative and leader... I can dream. ;)
ubernaffa 3 months ago 4
@Innoz1337 I'm drooling at the thought of a meritocratic technocracy.. It lifts my feelings to know their is another human being around with a similar vision.
TheMotherEagle 3 months ago
These interviews are wonderful. Thank you for making them available. Hearing Dr. Sagan speak always reawakens and re-instills a sense of wonder for me. the world was a better place for having had him in it.
LourdesAB 4 months ago
Rest easy, wherever you may be, Dr.
DiamondDJandSound 4 months ago
we would be better today if he were still here
redbeardo0o 4 months ago
Carl isn't looking down at us from heaven, which is what I like to think he would have wanted. Yet he's still here in all he wrote and said. So sad he went, I shall mourn him, yet take pride in all that he taught.
MrShannonite 4 months ago 2
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No. When one claims something is true or exists, the burden of proof is on the party making the claim. There is a unicorn in my back yard right now! Believe me? I'll bet not but according to your thought process it could very well be there. For anyone to think like this, it is no more than wishful thinking.
bsdwiz 4 months ago
Wouldn't you love to have Carl Sagan to be your uncle? what a childhood that would be.... days spent with your favorite uncle.. :)
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CARL SAGAN - "Almost no one attempts to educate themselves on the basics of science and technology, yet our society is based on these. TV takes up far too much of our time and is apparently much more attractive to most of us than the beauty and wonder of science. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces." - CARL SAGAN
TheLogicalBrain 5 months ago
There can be no god if people like this get cancer. If only the world would listen to what he has to say...
Thatguywithlogic 5 months ago
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ZZzzzzzWhat 5 months ago
every time i ear the word "Cosmos" i remember Carl Sagan's voice
ZZzzzzzWhat 5 months ago 4
@ZZzzzzzWhat carl sagan came from the 80s
midnightowl401 5 months ago
The cosmos is within us.
We're made of star stuff.
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
Lokispawns 5 months ago 13
“every inanimate object, to say nothing of the exquisite complexity of living beings,"
KillerWhaleSFl 6 months ago
i miss him.
blutobelushi 6 months ago
@Xs10sb4SNs Too true, it was the great man himself that said 'Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence'. Don't discount it, but without evidence you shouldn't believe it either.
randar3 6 months ago
I bet there is some sort of afterlife
ExNihiloJimmy 6 months ago
@ExNihiloJimmy How much you willing to bet? :D
itsquazart 6 months ago
@Xs10sb4SNs Very true. It's just so sad to think that he believed he was going to be okay.
TheLyssatype 6 months ago
@Xs10sb4SNs Yes I agree.
squamish4244 6 months ago
Carl Sagan, WE LOVE YOU.
nexicon 6 months ago 2
@Xs10sb4SNs It's not a sign of weakness in and of itself to be afraid to die. You can be an atheist and still fear death, they are not mutually exclusive.
squamish4244 6 months ago
Oh god, he was so optimistic. How heart-breaking. He thought he was lucky.
TheLyssatype 6 months ago
Carl Sagan, While you may be gone your legacy lives on. Very few people have inspired and enlightened as you have
You will be missed
Chanse1001 6 months ago
Come on people. Charlie Rose was just joking around when he said, "Faith Carl, faith". Who really believes he was trying to convert Sagan to magical thinking?
MassLiberal1 7 months ago 45
@MassLiberal1 No one believes that, but he also wasn't hear Carl Sagan's epic deconstruction of the same tired old faith argument.
bishop8000 7 months ago 34
@MassLiberal1 magical thinking ?
midnightowl401 6 months ago
"If I had this disease 4-5 years ago, by now I would be sure as dead" :(( Guess 4-5 years just wasn't enough
daniel1c 7 months ago
@daniel1c Medical science extended his life tremendously. If it wasn't for that, we would never have seen Cosmos.
bishop8000 7 months ago 7
@bishop8000 So he lived with the disease for a long duration of his life?
daniel1c 7 months ago
@daniel1c Yes. And additionally, Carl Sagan lived with other very serious medical conditions for his entire life. If you're interested in the subject, I recommend watching an interview series with his widow. It's called At Home in the Cosmos.
bishop8000 7 months ago
@bishop8000 Do you know where I might find At Home in the Cosmos? It doesn't seem to be available on 'PodJockey' anymore.
darkfunkychimp 6 months ago
@darkfunkychimp I'm sorry I don't know.
bishop8000 6 months ago
@daniel1c If he had it 4-5 years later, he might still be alive today. Medical technology.
sulljoh1 7 months ago
I CANT BELIEVE IT AT THIS DAY AND AGE. ARE WE THIS DUMB. REALLY BELIEVE THAT INVISIBLE PEOPLE ARE IN CHARGE OF THE SOCIETY, OF GREED AND DESTRUCTION. SAGAN TALKED BOUT PEACE AND GETTING ALONG THROUGH EDUCATION. ROSE WAS WRONG IN IS PERSECUTION OF SAGAN
vardema11 7 months ago
@vardema11 There are more and more people discovering the sciences are demonstrating certain truths and facts of our world....Rose is just making his show more interesting rather than just agreeing with every statement Carl was making. It's all good.
spareaxe 6 months ago
The fact that Carl Sagan did not live forever is proof that there is no God.
TomFynn 7 months ago 6
Carl would've had a field day with the likes of Richard (Phobos is a spaceship) Hoagland..
moonboots69 8 months ago
@moonboots69 There were people just like that in Carl's day, and he completely wiped the floor with them. He debated and trounced Immanuel Velikovsky who postulated that Venus was part of Jupiter that became detached, floated by the earth, and its tidal force created Noah's flood.
bishop8000 8 months ago
What an awesome human being he was.
Lycomedon 8 months ago 178
He died a few months after this interview. I was born after he died but I love him and all he stood for.
funrizwan 8 months ago
i hate how that mofo host tried to ask him if he would accept god before he dies, he didnt directly ask him but he got close to ask him somethin like that. goes to show how religion can give balls to some idiots to ask a person who is possibly dying about death and belief.
chinamanspeakenlis 8 months ago
@chinamanspeakenlis No he didn't. It wasn't even implied. If you were referring to when he said, "Faith Carl" I thought that was obviously a joke.
minimano100 8 months ago
@minimano100 cmon it's obvious what the host was implying. I also found that very bold and insulting! You can have your own believes without trying to also throw them down someone else's throat while they are dying!! I understand believing in a father-like protective god makes the host feel (IMHO)ignorantly jolly and jokefull about death, but to some of us we find our own personal peace in death as an ultimate realization of how precious life is, and how amazing the universe is that supports it.
umbrellaBuddha 7 months ago
I'm often demoralized from seeing the direction many human beings have taken with their lives, subscribing to superstitions or religious dogma. It makes me lose faith in humanity and our vast potential.
However, watching these videos of Sagan, a great man to be remembered, I'm reminded that there are in fact many people out there today of similar values and perspectives, unafraid to submit to the primitive teachings of our wayward ancestors. Maybe there's hope for humanity after all.
hibernian87 8 months ago 4
"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."
— Carl Sagan
Thanks for never trying to bamboozle us Carl!
aquawoman12 8 months ago 4
i could listen to these guys talk for days.
strijkbout12 8 months ago 136
Without Carl... we're probably screwed.
ChiefMaverick515 9 months ago
The entire planet should read Demon Haunted World. Awesome book by an awesome man. Miss him much!
GodlessMorality 9 months ago
A christian or any other religious theist would have been on their knees cringing & slobbering before their imaginary dictator god begging for more time, and/or the promise of a heaven, begging for forgiveness for any filthy sin remaining in their wretched souls, like the hypocrite cowards they are. Sagan, on the other hand, came to appreciate his life even more, took it like a man & lived his life to the fullest. And that, my freinds, is the difference.
iiwatcher 9 months ago
Charlie Rose is being a whiny bitch throughout this whole interview... He tells a dying man "FAITH. FAITH CARL" as if he hasn't thought of that. What a fuckin douche
GiveMeClarity 9 months ago
@GiveMeClarity i know, he is like trying to convert him isntead of asking him more intresting questions mothafucker....
stress4rmbk 9 months ago
@GiveMeClarity ??? bitch?? because he is not a esceptic?
JaViNrY14 8 months ago
@JaViNrY14
Get your spelling and your punctuation right, then we can reason.
GiveMeClarity 8 months ago
I think science and religion are completely unified and are both aproachable the same way. some theories or thoughts will show to stand up to truth while others will not.
G2Gunner 9 months ago
The last few sentences of this interview need to be considered by us all.
rpm297 9 months ago
"Faith, Carl, FAITH!!!"
Not in this boat, haha...
Enjoy your dreamless sleep Mr. Sagan.
Territomauvais 10 months ago 3
@Territomauvais The only thing that I think is unfair about death--- applied equally to all, it is inherently just about the most fair thing there is--- is that when you are in oblivion after you die, being oblivious, nobody will be able to point out to you how ridiculous the fantasy of a supernatural afterlife really was and rub your nose in it a little.
WrestlingHeretic 9 months ago
I'm in my early 20's....and I just got introduced to this man a few weeks back, and my appreciation for this man would never go away!!! It's funny, how knowing this man only for a few weeks, and only on internet, and in books. I had a cringe inside of me, and I literally had water in my eyes. I mean the way he talks, so gental and yet so full of life.
Sagan: "I want to believe that there's something after"
Rose: "Faith Carl"
I dearly hope Sagan is traveling the universe :) NOW
freedomland11 10 months ago 3
Carl Sagan lives in my heart :)
TheBoomkinUtube 10 months ago
this just breaks my heart watching this. him being so hopeful that he was out of the woods. he could still be alive today, you know. He'd be 77.
RaggedM88 10 months ago 2
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If I was Charlie Rose, at 2:41 - 2:42, I would have never let go. This man (Sagan) inspired me. Rest in peace, philosophical adept.
Johnnyman67 10 months ago
If I was Charlie Rose, at 2:41 - 2:42, I would have never let go. This man (Sagan) inspired me. Rest in peace, philosophical adept.
Johnnyman67 10 months ago
While I disagree with his opinions on religion... I greatly respect the Late Mr. Sagan. It is sad watching this video, knowing that he passed away shortly thereafter.
JediRingo1 10 months ago
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his childhood during the depression and holocaust certainly impacted his scientific fervor to eliminate all possibilities of higher life forms than humans. However, his promulgation that "arrogance" leads us to disbelieve in aliens "without evidence otherwise" contrasts his total dismissal of a higher being (God). It is this arrogance of Sagan's which truly limited his full potential.
gqkenny 10 months ago
carl, great man, great scientist
dvzqz87 10 months ago
If there is a hereafter, Carl is exploring the stars! If there's not, he lives on in us. Eitherway, he is alive :)
HallowsEve2010 10 months ago
Thanks for this wonderful videos.
Restrepo81 10 months ago
FAITH CARL FAITH, ITS SO SIMPLE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN ANYTHING WITH IT!
jezza170 10 months ago
I hate death.
DutchmanNL1988 11 months ago
@DutchmanNL1988 If a god exists, he invented or at least allows death. What does that say?
bishop8000 11 months ago
@bishop8000 I think that if there was an all merciful loving God than he wouldn't allow these horrible things as death and suffering to happen. Some creationists try to explain it away by saying that death and suffering exist for a reason (like punishment, a test or something good will come from it). Yet if God is all powerful than he wouldn't need death and suffering to test or punish etc., rendering all suffering unnecessary suffering which makes it even worse!
DutchmanNL1988 11 months ago
@DutchmanNL1988 It wouldn't be that God allowed or created these evil acts, it would be due to our finite minds being unable to comprehend the infinite powers of god. God would would be the creator of us, rational beings, and it would be us, who create the evil acts through misinterpreting what it is we were created for... or something along those lines I'm sure. The real worry for me is, If we suppose God did create the universe, what purpose does he have intended for us?
EncryptedError 10 months ago
@EncryptedError What god? Where's your proof?
HighPraetar 10 months ago
@HighPraetar Lol take it easy there cowboy. I'm not saying there is a God, I was just pointing out the errors in Dutchmans logic. What I was saying at the end is that I prefer not to believe in God because I don't want to imagine what plans a God would have with us mere mortals.
EncryptedError 10 months ago
@bishop8000 So I think it says that this world (with its death and suffering) is incompatible with an all powerful loving God.
DutchmanNL1988 11 months ago
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@bishop8000 You're a very spiteful person, from what I've read from your comments. I will never understand why so many atheists or agnostics are so hateful towards anyone who believes in God. I've never heard Dr. Sagan refer to God as an imaginary character or any such thing I constantly hear atheists say.
He wants evidence, there is none. Case closed. No need to be nasty towards others.
poetaviolinista 10 months ago
@bishop8000 It doesn't say anything... but if you're trying to make a certain point you should probably just state it instead of trying to bait people into a discussion about which you think you have something clever to say. In the Christian religion, it was not God who brought death into the world, it was man. As the Christian creation mythology has similar roots to that of Judaism and Islam, I would speculate that it's probably much the same in those religions as well.
TomKaren1994 10 months ago
@TomKaren1994 It was a rhetorical question space cadet. What it means is that from an ethical perspective, a god who permits death and suffering while having the power to stop it may just as well have caused it. Therefore, because there is unimaginable suffering in the world, if a god exists, that "god" is far more worthy of our contempt than are the greatest human mass murderers in history. THAT is what it says.
bishop8000 10 months ago
@bishop8000 Your comment is not original nor unique. It's been stated a billion times. The fallacy is that you are taking your perception of a human concept (ethics) and applying it to a being that by definition supercedes and is unbound by it. You might as well talk about "6 day" creation as if a creator being would be restricted by the concept of time. If you feel derision toward the concept of a deity, you only need to say so. Don't try to make arguments you yourself don't understand.
TomKaren1994 10 months ago
@TomKaren1994 "Your comment is not original nor unique. It's been stated a billion times."
It's the correct answer, I can't help if I wasn't the first person to say it.
Making a fiat statement that god is unbounded by time and ethics is a sneaky attempt to talk your way out of defending against a logical argument. The fallacy here is yours, it's called special pleading.
"Don't try to make arguments you yourself don't understand."
I understand them, it clearly is you who does not.
bishop8000 10 months ago
@bishop8000 It is not I who maintain there is a lack of boundaries for an omnipotent creator being. By its very nature, if it exists it would have to be so. Your position is that if YOU perceive something to be bad, an omnipotent being is somehow evil in nature if it allows it. It is not I whose argument is flawed by 'special pleading,' it is yours. You assume your perception and interpretation of the universe is perfect. Plus, you assume a role for such a being which may not exist.
TomKaren1994 10 months ago
@TomKaren1994 Most of this was pretty nonsensical, but I will again refute the central point. It argues that if god exists, god would be beyond human boundaries. The problem of course is that if unicorns, or any imaginary magical being exists, the same argument could be made, but it fails utterly to convince. Even if there was no question that a god existed, my criticism would be exactly the same: suffering exists, and a god with the power to stop it, is evil for not doing so.
bishop8000 10 months ago
@bishop8000 And what I want to know is how you came to the conclusion that it is your perception of what is categorized as "suffering" and "ethical" that should be the standard. Do you have some special insight into the nature of the universe that, by its very nature, eludes the rest of us? Perhaps you think Socrates' Allegory of the Cave is childish and based in simplistic ignorance? Gee, I wish I knew you... I'd be a smarter person just for the honor of being in your presence.
TomKaren1994 10 months ago
@TomKaren1994 blocked for being a douche.
bishop8000 10 months ago
@bishop8000 "Blocked for being a douche": Agreed, that was pretty douchebaggy right at the end. But I enjoyed watching you two spar. =)
SamcasticAtGmail 10 months ago
I suspect that at the moment of death , the essense of the one who inhabited as Carl Sagan, woke up from a deep sleep, and proclaimed, "I just had the most interesting dream" !
rolynstone48 11 months ago
@rolynstone48 I wish that were true.
bishop8000 11 months ago
The world misses Carl Sagan :(
Herv3 11 months ago
@Herv3 Speak for yourself
dmitriboukalov 8 months ago
Carl´s atoms are now recycled in other forms of matter and energy, in the oxygen we breath, in the nitrogen of the soil, iron, phosphate, calcium, and all his energy recycled among us as well as his thoughts and wonderful lectures and wisdom he generously left behind for us.
exoplaneta001 11 months ago
This man was a true inspirationa;l genius, he had a certain way of making science and especially cosmology accessable to the average person. If only thee were more people in the world like him. You are missed Carl, but your legacy and impact will live on forever
SandmanOz 11 months ago
Comparing the human wisdom of Carl Sagan with what passes for knowledge today is scary. His warning science has surpassed our understanding is evidenced in the explosions of Japan's nuclear reactors now spreading radioactivity around the world while our leader's call for more nuclear reactors. By our man made hole in the the ozone layer that protects us from the sun's radiation. By our refusal to deal with global warming/climate e change in any meaningful way. Will we destroy ourselves?
thestoryplease 11 months ago
Wow that was really sad to see him saying the cancer was gone. Only six short months later he was dead. I really wish I had been old enough to appreciate him during his time on this Earth. But thank goodness for the internet for giving me such easy access to this man's legacy.
davenuge 11 months ago
Carl Sagan was most definitely an atheist. Atheist being not believing in a God. He was agnostic to the idea (we can never know), but did he believe in any? No. Go Carl Sagan. Inspiration to humanity in every sense of the word
iliveon 11 months ago
Thanks for posting!
JadeChaos 11 months ago
I haven't forgotten your work, Carl. I am spreading your legacy. I wish we could have met.
Demonfeed 11 months ago
@Demonfeed Isn't a direct message to a dead Carl Sagan, just the opposite of spreading his legacy?
Kornsirkler 11 months ago
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@Demonfeed Isn't a direct message to a dead Carl Sagan, just the opposite of spreading his legacy?
Kornsirkler 11 months ago
Carl Ssagan un Grande que recordaremos siempre.
El periodista es un reverendo imbecil come mocos
sfirpo3 11 months ago
Carl Sagan is a great man and will always be, the way he teaches about the universe and other things is so glorious...he made me look at the universe and life from a whole new point of view...i will really miss him...
Rest In Peace Carl Sagan, may you sleep for the rest of eternity...floating in the vast ocean of space.
KiteNamikaze 1 year ago
Dr Sagan, you are never dead among the millions and millions of people you inspired. Every time I hear the beautiful opening melody of Cosmos, I feel I can see you like long departed loved member of my own family. Dr Sagan, you were indeed a candle among the darkness of ignorance.
khaleelashraf2001 1 year ago
heartbreaking
LonghornPhysicist 1 year ago
This is just fantastic. Nothing to add.
raulp123 1 year ago
How deeply moving it is to watch an agnostic and probably an atheist to live and die in a multiple of degrees greater dignity than the most hardcore religious zealot. This man has embraced and accepted the world's stupidity (embrace is to acknowledge and respect) much like Jesus, yet he is no christian. However chances are that a serial killer in his early youth was being dragged from church to church.
VonManavis 1 year ago
may be before dying you just got to wish and by chance some thing might happen
noir0222 1 year ago
@noir0222 Maybe. But how good is the evidence supporting that guess? Is it any better than the guess that if you howl at the moon tonight, you'll live forever?
bishop8000 1 year ago 6
@bishop8000 you only die once
noir0222 1 year ago
@bishop8000 This show is still on the air, on PBS
wazdr 10 months ago
@bishop8000 You will meet your own image one day, the one that is timeless.
ALLZechariaSitchin 10 months ago
@ALLZechariaSitchin And I'll also meet ferries, reptilians, and the loch ness monster that same day right?
bishop8000 10 months ago
@bishop8000 suck a dick
ALLZechariaSitchin 10 months ago
@ALLZechariaSitchin You seem to have the dick sucking and the superstition taken care of well enough for both of us.
bishop8000 10 months ago
it would be ridiculous to disagree with this man. Human beings can be great, and he showed that
billytrack 1 year ago
What a remarkable human being...this world would be a much better place if we all thought similarly as he did.
bernlin2000 1 year ago
Carl sagan should be known as one of humanities great ones. Unfortunately, I don't believe all should think like him, just the leaders.
ricktbdgc 1 year ago
This interview is strange, like the interviewer is trying to see things from carl's POV, but is struggling. The interviewer seems to be almost threatened by carls confident pov, and is trying to throw negative things at him trying to get a glimpse of self doubt. Honestly I think carl sagan has no self doubt, believes in his own views whole heartedly, and if you can't respect that shame on you man. The interviewer could only wish he had them same comfort in his own views, clearly religion
ricktbdgc 1 year ago 2
Carl Sagan epitomizes the faith of a man who only has faith in humanity. I only wish I could be so bold and humble.
mzyzer19 1 year ago
He does not say one thing: logic is important, but creativity is also important
left brain - logic , right brain - creativity
we have to use 50-50 to be real human beings
pidromonz 1 year ago
@pidromonz Carl Sagan was a master of creativity. But science deals with truth claims. We may imagine wonderfully strange things, but nature does not always conform to our preconceptions.
bishop8000 1 year ago 15
@bishop8000 While evidence is always the preferred method every observation starts out as a theory and the we collect data to turn in to evidence
adamsturgeon99 9 months ago
@adamsturgeon99 Every observation starts out as an observation.. From that observation we construct hypothesis to explain it. The ones that are best in line with further investigation become accepted as theories if the supporting evidence is strong enough.
bishop8000 8 months ago
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@bishop8000 While evidence is always the preferred method every observation starts out as a theory and then we collect data to turn in to evidence
adamsturgeon99 9 months ago