Brocas Brain, Carl Sagan
Brocas Brain, Carl Sagan
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Broca's Brain
Reflections on the Romance of Science

Author: Carl Sagan

Narrator: Dion Graham

Unabridged: 12 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/25/2017

Synopsis

Carl Sagan, writer and scientist, returns from the frontier to tell us about how the world works. In his delightfully down-to-earth style, he explores and explains a mind-boggling future of intelligent robots, extraterrestrial life and its consequences, and other provocative, fascinating quandaries of the future that we want to see today.Introductory music from the original score for COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey composed by Alan Silvestri, used with permission from Cosmos Studios, Inc. and Chappers Music. All rights reserved. Special thanks to Fuzzy Planets, Inc.

About Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan (1934-1996) was the Director of Cornell University’s Laboratory for Planetary Studies. He played a leading role in the American space program and was an adviser to NASA since its inception. He briefed the Apollo astronauts before their flights to the Moon, and was an experimenter on the Mariner, Viking, Voyager, and Galileo expeditions to the planets. He helped solve the mysteries of the high temperatures of Venus (answer: massive greenhouse effect), the seasonal changes on Mars (answer: windblown dust), and the reddish haze of Titan (answer: complex organic molecules). For his work, Dr. Sagan received the NASA medals for Exceptional Scientific Achievement, and the Pulitzer Prize for The Dragons of Eden. His 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage won the Emmy and Peabody awards. The National Science Foundation declared that his “research transformed planetary science… his gifts to mankind were infinite.”

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alex on April 11, 2011

It's very hard to give a review and rating for the entirety of this book. From chapter to chapter it feels disjointed and varies quite a bit in both content and quality. I seem forced to review the different parts and chapters individually. The first "part" of the book, titled "Science and Human Con......more

Goodreads review by Ayman on September 26, 2010

"العلم هو طريقة للتفكير أكثر مما هو مجموعة من المعارف". تقرأ هذه الحكمة مفتتحا أول فصول هذا الكتاب الرائع المكون من مجموعة من المقالات المنتقاة لعالم الفلك و الكاتب و الأديب و الإعلامي الأمريكي ذي الأصول الروسية كارل ساجان. ببساطة يقدم هذا الكتاب مادة علمية معقدة بصورة أدبية سهلة بل و لذيذة، تذكرنا......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on April 22, 2024

Broca's Brain is Carl Sagan’s report on the state of astronomical science, and science in general, as it was in the late 1970s. As such, the book is almost 50 years out-of-date with our present-day scientific luxuries and discoveries. It is for this reason that the book is not that interesting, even......more

Goodreads review by Marijan on November 07, 2018

Knjiga je gotovo proročanska. U vrijeme kad ju je pisao, Sagan je s pravom bio zabrinut koliko pseudoznanost i antiintelektualna atmosfera sve više prožimaju američko i svjetsko društvo, a danas smo na žalost svjedoci koliko je to uznapredovalo.......more

Goodreads review by Nandakishore on February 09, 2018

Miscellaneous writings by Carl Sagan. I read it immediately after "Cosmos" was aired on Doordarshan (the national TV channel of India). Sagan is a great explainer - reading him will automatically engender a love for science!......more

Quotes

“Magnificent . . . Delightful . . . A masterpiece. A message of tremendous hope for humanity . . . While ever conscious that human folly can terminate man’s march into the future, Sagan nonetheless paints for us a mind-boggling future: intelligent robots, the discovery of extraterrestrial life and its consequences, and above all the challenge and pursuit of the mystery of the universe.”—Chicago Tribune

“Go out and buy this book, because Carl Sagan is not only one of the world’s most respected scientists, he’s a great writer. . . . I can give a book no greater accolade than to say I’m planning on reading it again. And again. And again.”—The Miami Herald

“Closely reasoned, impeccably researched, gently humorous, utterly devastating.”—The Washington Post

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