Why Carl Sagan is Truly Irreplaceable: No one will ever match his talent as the “gatekeeper of scientific credibility”
No one has ever explained space, in all its bewildering glory, as well as Sagan did. He’s been gone now for nearly two decades, but people old enough to remember him will easily be able to summon his voice, his fondness for the word “billions” and his boyish enthusiasm for understanding the universe we’re so lucky to live in. Fagan was the original host of Cosmos. As a high school senior, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson boarded a bus from New York City to Ithaca, NY to meet his idol, Carl Sagan, at Cornell University.
