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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives, our world, and the universe around us.
These luminous, entertaining essays travel both the vastness of the cosmos and the intimacy of the human mind, posing such fascinating questions as how did the universe originate and how will it end, and how can we meld science and compassion to meet the challenges of the coming century? Here, too, is a rare, private glimpse of Sagans thoughts about love, death, and God as he struggled with fatal disease.
Ever forward-looking and vibrant with the sparkle of his unquenchable curiosity, Billions & Billions is a testament to one of the great scientific minds of our day.
Praise for Billions & Billions
Sagans] writing brims with optimism, clarity and . Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
Sagan used the spotlight of his fame to illuminate the abyss into which stupidity, greed, and the lust for power may yet dump us. All of those interests and causes are handsomely represented in Billions & Washington Post Book World
Astronomer Carl Sagan didnt live to see the millennium, but he probably has done more than any other popular scientist to prepare us for its Journal & Constitution
Billions & Billions can be interpreted as the Silent Spring for the current generation. . . . Human history includes a number of leaders with great minds who gave us theories about our universe and origins that ran contrary to religious dogma. Galileo determined that the Earth revolved around the Sun, not the other way around. Darwin challenged Creationism with his Evolution of Species. And now, Sagan has given the world its latest challenge: Billions & Antonio Express-News
Sagans] inspiration and boundless curiosity live on in the gift of his Times & Post-Intelligencer
Couldnt stay awake in your high school science classes? This book can help fill in the holes. Acclaimed scientist Carl Sagan combines his logic and knowledge with wit and humor to make a potentially dry subject enjoyable to Dallas Morning News
Author: Carl Sagan
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 05/12/1998
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780345379184
Language: English
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