Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Carl Sagan, writer and scientist, returns from the frontier to tell us about how the world works. In his delightfully down-to-earth style, he explores and explains a mind-boggling future of intelligent robots, extraterrestrial life and its consquences, and other provocative, fascinating quandries...
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Carl Sagan, writer and scientist, returns from the frontier to tell us about how the world works. In his delightfully down-to-earth style, he explores and explains a mind-boggling future of intelligent robots, extraterrestrial life and its consquences, and other provocative, fascinating quandries of the future that we want to see today.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780345336897 (0345336895)
ASIN: 345336895
Publish date: February 12th 1986
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 398
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Science,
Popular Science,
Biology,
Science Nature,
Philosophy,
Astronomy,
Psychology
i'm amazed that i was able to understand three quarters of this book with little or no help at all from any outside source. there were times when i had to use the dictionary or find someone on the internet who can explain physics to a near idiot in the domain; even so, i can give myself a pat on the...
This collection of essays is well worth the read, if only because it's by Sagan. It's not the best book of his I've read, but even mediocre Sagan is better than most science writers today. His sense of wonder, his love of scientific discovery, his clear insight -- they are infectious and can make ...
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