Eric P. Metze

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  • Dec. 20, 1996: Science Loses Its Most Visible Public Champion

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    Eric P. Metze
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    by Tony Long of Wired 1996: Carl Sagan dies. Calling Carl Sagan a scientist is a little like calling the Beatles a rock band. Sagan was certainly a scientist (an astronomer, biologist and astrophysicist, to be precise). But he was also science’s most visible public advocate, a secular humanist, a fervent believer in extraterrestrial life,…