![]() ![]() NOTE PROMPTS FOR COSMOS EPISODE I: On the Shores of the. ![]() The Ku-Fu-quotation can be found in Sagan´s last great work THE DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD (1995). View COSMOS Shores of the Cosmic Ocean (Transcript).docx from PHYS MISC at Paris Junior College. The Darwin quotation heading the second movement was also found in Sagan´s book Cosmos (it is originally from Charles Darwin: On The Origin Of Species) and so was the quotation about "The Backbone of the Night". Serenade also reaches out to other inspirational sources, such as William Shakespeare, Joseph Conrad and British science-writer John Gribbin, another great educator and popularizer. Carl Sagan opens the program with a description of the cosmos and a Spaceship of the Imagination (shaped like a dandelion seed). His vast historical knowledge and sensitive ear for the poetic also allowed him to adorn his various texts with short quotations from original folklore through history, quotations which I have used as mental and spiritual appetizers, heading some of the movements in this piece. On the Shores of the Cosmic Ocean Humanity’s destiny among the stars The Veil Nebula in the constellation Cygnus (CC BY 3. Sagan was a great voice in the pursuit of knowledge and reason, an invaluable force in the struggle against ignorance and superstition. The title of this piece is taken from the late astronomer and educator Carl Sagan?s book Cosmos (1980). ![]()
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