Carl Sagan's Most Popular Work

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	• Cosmos Carl Sagan Random House, 2002 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 153 reviews view larger image
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Marvelous and Wondrous

Carl Sagan left so much for mankind that it's hard to say which of his contributions stand highest in importance---his many books, his lectures, the "Cosmos" series or countless others. Certainly, this book ranks most high. Sagan does a marvelous of spinning a silver web of wonder, subtly explaining complex issues without losing a beat, and leaving readers with that all-important treasure--faith. When finished reading, one sits back and just thinks.

Some have criticized the ending built around pi, but it's an imperfectly perfect ending that only a Carl Sagan could come up with. No one ever said he had all the answers (or was God)--only that he could leave the reader realizing that, deep in the terrible complexities of this universe, there really are answers we've never yet dreamed of.

Andy O'Hara - www.SwanTales.com

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A Masterpiece

Cosmos has profoundly influenced me on a real, tangible, continual, daily basis. Sagan convinced me of the precious nature of our existence. Sagan effectively explains the vastness of our solar system, our star cluster, our galaxy, the entire universe via using brilliant, easy to understand analogies. After completing the book, I felt profoundly connected to every human-being on the planet. The beauty of our existence becomes truly apparent, however the tragedy and foolishness behind conflict, crime, war, hatred, bigotry and zealotry also becomes unbearably clear.

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Carl Sagan's Most Popular Work

The late great astronomer put his all into this effort, and nearly three decades later, Cosmos is still an engaging read. From his relating of Eratosthenes' method for correctly calculating the earth's circumference 2300 years ago to speculation on the possibilities of resurrecting three abandoned spacecraft designs, Sagan presents a grand, optimistic, and powerful view of the universe and our innumerable connections to all of it at every scale. Whether one reads the book on its own or in concert with the video series, this is an indispensible journey for all who have curiosity about science and nature.

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It gets you thinking...

Science/atronomy always seemed too complex as i'm a lay person who is terrible at maths etc.so i been shy of these kinds of books.This book is a hive of understandable provocative information.It explains how vast vast can be.And that 2 things are evident-universe has infinite time and its constantly re-organising itself.It made me see that change is a small hop to mutation given enough time and the book explains the process from sub-atomic to life.Anyway now i've come up with my bold and eccentric belief that God is no more than a life-of-its-own-super-concious-collective spin-off that's been snowballingfrom from everything that has ever lived on the planet for the last 3-4 billion years (yes other living planets have their own Gods)and didn't create the Universe.If the universe/s are truly infinite then they truly are backwards in time too.So no need for a Creator.However i disagree how Sagan merely implys God is a figment of our imagination as all good scientists do.The collective human super-conciousness should be thing we meditate and aspire to connect with or science means nothing because we are flawed. Perhaps because God is not in charge of EVERYTHING !and Religion tends to make a mess of this evolving process because of its ego-centricity.This is a facinating book. These are some of the ideas i thought of from it but 'Cosmos' is full of hundreds of others.There is a useful out-line of the development of science through the ages and a tantalising glimpse of what the ancient Greeks were able phathom way ahead of their time.Just WHAT was in the library of Alexandria before it was destroyed?
PS:But i question- are scientists the best for communicating with alien life forms?Guys Guys, on our space probe, keep representing our numbers simple!The difference between 2 rocks/stars etc from 5 is as ** or ***** etc and from there decimals can be explained.Instead they use shapes that give no clue to quantity.Poor Sagan a tad too idealistic i feel about super intelligent aliens-their intelligence likely to be entirely different from ours. Meanwhile our first radio communications zinging away at the speed of light through space transmit largely spam.We are too back-ward to get rid of it either....

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AWESOME [brilliant]

Before Cosmos, I used to live on earth. After Cosmos, I live on earth, in the milky way galaxy, in this vast and ever-expanding (and maybe contarcting) universe!

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