Jill Tarter — 'It Takes a Cosmos to Make a Human'
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Cosmic Perspective Is Fundamental to a Long Future
i feel like what you have is this kind of, you know, cosmic thinking based on the science you do. So i trying to encourage people to think about themselves in a larger framework. I think that caleb sharf, who's the chairman of the astrobiology department at columbia, has a lovely phrase, like one of philip marison's. He says that on a finite world, and the earth is definitely finite, a cosmic perspective is not a luxury. It's actually a necessity....
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