From: bweimann@exit109.com
Subject: Re: Carl Sagan
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 17:16:02 -0500 (EST)
Dear Dick, Perhaps many of us are feeling the same way about him, but you expressed it so beautifully. > I will think of Dr. Sagan as wandering out >amongst the stars, "billions and billions" of them. When I first read the news this morning, I also thought immediately that Mr. Sagan must surely be wandering out there seeing all our glorious cosmos firsthand, only now, finally, with complete and perfect understanding. A wonderful way to think of him. Barb At 12:43 PM 12/20/96 -0500, you wrote: >Carl Sagan's death is not untimely, owing to the nature of the disease he >was laboring under. I have often conceived of death as a time when all >the unknown answers suddenly become knowns, and that issues of space and >time are resolved. I would like to think of Carl Sagan as having his >first good look at other galaxies today. Besides peace, we can also >believe there might be joy. I will think of Dr. Sagan as wandering out >amongst the stars, "billions and billions" of them. > >He was a great influence on all teachers of science and math who followed >his monumental book and series, "Cosmos". > > Dick > > > >