On 1/3/2011 10:49 PM, Amy Guskin wrote:
>>> On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:28:10 -0500, Methuselah Jones wrote
> (in article):
>
>> Oh wait, wrong story.
>>
>> Hello all you wonderful, beautiful, marvelous B5 people!
>>
>> I'm trying to track down a line from B5, I'm pretty sure it's G'kar, who
>> says something like, we are the universe's effort to understand itself.
>>
>> Ready? Set...everybody answer at once! :)<<
>
> Hey there, and welcome back!  The line I think you're thinking of is Delenn
> to Brother Edward ("Passing Through Gethsemane"): "We
are the universe trying
> to understand itself."
>
> Amy
"We are a way for the universe to know itself." Carl Sagan, Cosmos.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1175883507954918704#
Fast forward to the last 15s of the video.

Did JMS ever reference Sagan on this phrase or did it pre-date Sagan?

Mike
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