Sagan

[sey-guhn, sa-gahn]

noun

1. Carl (Edward), 1934–96, U.S. astronomer and writer.

2. Françoise Françoise Quoirez, 1935–2004, French novelist.

Sagan

/ saɡã̃ /

noun

1. Carl ( Edward ) 1934–96, US astronomer and writer on scientific subjects; presenter of the television series Cosmos (1980)

2. Françoise (frã̃swɑːz), original name Françoise Quoirez . 1935–2004, French writer, best-known for the novels Bonjour Tristesse (1954) and Aimez-vous Brahms? (1959)

Example Sentences

Carl Sagan, the great science popularizer and member of the Mariner 9 team that captured groundbreaking images of Mars in 1971, concluded that those canals were, as Baron puts it, “mere chimeras, an amalgam of misperceptions due to atmospheric distortion, the fallible human eye, and one man’s unconstrained imagination.”

From Los Angeles Times

But that imagination, Sagan added, had value of its own: “Even if Lowell’s conclusions about Mars, including the existence of the fabled canals, turned out to be bankrupt, his depiction of the planet had at least this virtue: it aroused generations of eight-year-olds, myself among them, to consider the exploration of the planets as a real possibility, to wonder if we ourselves might go to Mars.”

From Los Angeles Times

While the fall of the Nazi regime preceded the use of atomic weapons on Japan by nearly three months, as soft-spoken astronomer Carl Sagan once observed, the ideological imprint of Nazism was etched into the littered landscape of charred bodies and scorched earth of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

From Salon

Lacking Hitler, Sagan suggested, Washington and Moscow imposed his image on each other.

From Salon

In concluding his 1986 address, Carl Sagan warned that World War II had never truly ended.

From Salon