Image of the Day: Carl Sagan's Childhood Drawing of His Vision of Outer Space
Carl Sagan’s passion for exploring worlds beyond our own began as a child growing up in Brooklyn, when a the age of five he began frequenting the New York Public Library to browse books that could give him a better understanding of the stars. He later reflected on the what he discovered: “There was a magnificence to it, a grandeur, a scale which has never left me. Never ever left me.”
Sagan pursued hispassion into adulthood writing later: "All my life, I've wondered about life beyond the earth. On those countless other planets that we think circle other suns, is there also life? Might the beings of other worlds resemble us, or would they be astonishingly different? What would they be made of? In the vast Milky Way galaxy, how common is what we call life? The nature of life on earth and the quest for life elsewhere are the two sides of the same question: the search for who we are."
The Daily Galaxy via Library of Congress
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Amazing.
Posted by: 42 | August 09, 2012 at 04:22 PM
Unfortunately the article does not mention how old Carl Sagan was when he did this drawing
Posted by: Raúl | August 10, 2012 at 01:40 PM
"Sagan’s fixation continued and as a pre-teen he sketched his vision for the future of interstellar space exploration, currently housed in the The Library of Congress." So I'll take a guess that he drew this between the ages of -1 thru 12 years of age.
Posted by: Andrew | August 10, 2012 at 07:05 PM
Just shows, that some of us know who we are and why we are here very early in life. Most of us never even think about it. Thanks for this post about a really unique and gifted individual.
Posted by: Tosca Zraikat | August 11, 2012 at 07:57 PM