6/29/2023 0 Comments Carl sagan universe![]() ![]() They were deeply in love - and now, as an adult, I can see that their professional collaborations were another expression of their union, another kind of lovemaking. But inside the Sphinx Head Tomb, he and my mother, Ann Druyan, wrote books, essays, and screenplays together, working to popularize a philosophy of the scientific method in place of the superstition, mysticism, and blind faith that they felt was threatening to dominate the culture. By that time, he had become well known and frequently appeared on television, where he inspired millions with his contagious curiosity about the universe. ![]() My father, the astronomer Carl Sagan, taught space sciences and critical thinking at Cornell. At the turn of the last century it had been the headquarters for a secret society at Cornell called the Sphinx Head Tomb, but in the second half of the century some bedrooms and a kitchen were added and, by the 1980s, it had been converted into a private home where I lived with my wonderful mother and father. It overlooked a deep gorge, and beyond that the city of Ithaca. It seemed like something straight out of ancient Sumeria, or Indiana Jones - but it was not, in either case, something you’d expect to find in upstate New York. ![]() We lived in a sandy-colored stone house with an engraved winged serpent and solar disc above the door. ![]()
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