Carl Sagan: My God, it's full of stars
Decoding the Gurus
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Carl Sagan's Message on Humility and Self-Deprecation
Mark: I'm basically evangelizing for humility and self-deprecation. Carl Sagan never claimed to have personally revolutionized our understanding of astrology or anything else. Albert Einstein's another person who could have easily slipped into self-grandiosity, he says. He is acting as the handmaiden or the the servant to a community which is much much bigger than he is at least that's the feeling I get from listening to himYeah yeah you know like Matt will get off the humility point but there's one final clip which you prepared which was very nice and it's kind of talking about the golden barriers that we've erected between humans and other species.
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