by Carl Sagan
If I haven't mentioned it before, let me iterate that I love Carl Sagan; I've even said that my first born child will be named after him. While this was dry in some places, which was unusual for Sagan, it was a fantastic work nonetheless. I found it very interesting that astrophysics could potenti...
When did you last despair of the fleeting nature of the human enterprise? It is a constant thought with me now. Humans have endangered the prospects of life on this planet that we call home through a consistent defiance of sensibilities. Consider the conceits that afflict us: of being a superior spe...
Sagan has been an inspirational figure to for quite a few years, but there are a couple of books by him that I hadn’t gotten around to yet. Pale Blue Dot is another commendable popular science book, where he explores issues surrounding space travel and colonisation. The treatment of subject matter s...
I missed just who Sagan was quoting, as I was e-mailing a long overdue message, but my brain was distracted back to the audio with these sentiments... ...lamentable that science has overtaken religion. Religion was human-centric; humans were the point. Science just states that humans are inconsequen...
I took so many notes out of this book! I really enjoy it when Carl Sagan talks about space. He is so passionate about it, and is smart enough to understand it and be able to explain it so easily and poetically, that it just a joy to read. On a Carl Sagan star scale (as compared to his other books), ...
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