Cosmos

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  Sagan was a genius. It is truly amazing when people that are geniuses can take such complex subject matter and break it down so that the common person can grasp it or at least begin to grasp it. Reading this book I felt pure enjoyment and wonder. The visions and concepts that Sagan elicits are spellbinding. Case in point...Sagan states that even if you counted all of the grains of sand on all of the beaches on earth, you still wouldn't even come close to equaling the amount of stars in the co... (show more)

  Sagan was a genius. It is truly amazing when people that are geniuses can take such complex subject matter and break it down so that the common person can grasp it or at least begin to grasp it. Reading this book I felt pure enjoyment and wonder. The visions and concepts that Sagan elicits are spellbinding. Case in point...Sagan states that even if you counted all of the grains of sand on all of the beaches on earth, you still wouldn't even come close to equaling the amount of stars in the cosmos!!! Is that a sick analogy or what?!!! If you want to be blown away, read this book, I guarantee you won't be able to count the amount of times you stop yourself, mentally imagine what he is saying, move the book away from your eyes, get the thousand mile stare and just say...damn. Sagan did not write this book to show his brilliance among the scientific elite, in direct contrast he wrote it for the broadest audience possible, he wrote it for all of humanity. (show less)

   

   

  by Facebook User on Apr 07, 2009 at 12:08AM

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  Little known fact: Carl Sagan single-handedly saved the Human species (and most other complex orders of life on Earth) from extinction! Well, almost certainly anyway--this cannot be anything but conjecture as there is no way we could prove it so, or otherwise. But the fact is, many world leaders have attributed an eye-opening respect for nuclear war, to his co-creation and tireless promotion of a horrific vision of a "Nuclear Winter". Sagan pushed this vision not only through mas... (show more)

  Little known fact: Carl Sagan single-handedly saved the Human species (and most other complex orders of life on Earth) from extinction! Well, almost certainly anyway--this cannot be anything but conjecture as there is no way we could prove it so, or otherwise. But the fact is, many world leaders have attributed an eye-opening respect for nuclear war, to his co-creation and tireless promotion of a horrific vision of a "Nuclear Winter". Sagan pushed this vision not only through mass-media, but through the halls of power as well.

  This is arguably Sagan's best book (out of an incredible career and dozens of publications). (show less)

   

   

  by Jim Collier on Jan 05, 2010 at 09:37AM

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