Carl Sagan: great scientist, writer, thinker, marijuana user

May 16th, 2010 by

When I first read “The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark” about  a year ago, I was (and am, constantly) undergoing a transformation in the way I think about the world. That book hit me hard, and it sured up a lot of things I’d kinda been feeling, but unable to put into words.

He wrote this amazing essay, as “Mr. X” (having to hide his name for fear of committing public and career suicide), about his own personal marijuana use and he even mentions that it helped with some of his scientific insights.
link to his essay

Here are a few video’s from youtube, if you’re like me, and are too young to remember him being on TV, and don’t know who I’m talking about.


-oh wow I just finished watched this one again as I searched for it on youtube. all the shit that we do to each other… i don’t know, this video just puts things into perspective.


-Carl on his PBS show ‘Cosmo’s’ explaining the fourth dimension.

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