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Originally Posted by peter12
I never saw the attachment so many have to Carl Sagan. He was a popular scientist, not someone I would look up to as a poetic hero.
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He was the rare scientist that could communicate complex ideas to the public at large. I think many people in the 1980s were turned on to science and humanism by the Cosmos series and his books.
Neil deGrasse Tyson seems like the same sort of person.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson