Carl Sagan had such a beautiful mind. His parents were barely able to feed their family. But they nurtured his innate, as I evaluate it, brilliance from a very young age. Sagan was extremely influenced by astronomy and scientific thinking, so much that many people understood our place in the Cosmos better.

I find it amazingly beautiful that Sagan was able to popularize science. His contribution to generations and generations led many people to understand our position better in the cosmos. I like to think people became educated and in the then-future, it led to less violence against each other. What's more beautiful than enjoying science and serving humanity by popularizing a way of thinking so great that it's unimaginable what would have happened if it did not exist?

I, too, would have loved to popularize science. And here on PsychCentral, it's a bit ridiculous but it's what I try to do. But unfortunately due to the loss of my innate abilities and the now evident brain damage and resulting psychosis I have, I do not think I will be able to be successful as a professor and as someone who outreaches science. I will just make things worse. So I better not try it.

But yes, I find Carl Sagan's mind to be beautiful.

(When he died, on 20th December 1996, exactly four years later I was born on 21st December 2000. The one day difference may be accounted for different time zones. I find this fact to be beautiful.)