“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species.”
~Carl Edward Sagan (1934 – 1996)
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences.
Carl Edward Sagan is best known for his research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation.
Sagan assembled the first physical messages sent into space: the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them.
Sagan published more than 600 scientific papers and articles and was author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books.
His most popular books are Pale Blue Dot, The Dragons of Eden, Broca’s Brain. Sagan co-wrote the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. Cosmos is the most widely watched series in the history of American public television. It has been seen by at least 500 million people across 60 different countries.
Sagan also wrote the science fiction novel Contact, the basis for a 1997 film of the same name.
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