The Varieties of Scientific Experience

by Carl Sagan

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My copy of this stays loaned out about ten months out of the year, so whenever it falls back into my hands for a week or two I’m practically duty-bound to eat it up as quick as I can.

Verdict: best as ever. If you read this book and don’t have some fundamental opinions changed, then we’ll probably be friends because you hold them in the first place.

Also, I always forget (though probably no longer, writing something down has a way of solving that problem) that Kurt Vonnegut is the only blurb for the book, right on the back cover. On Carl: “I miss him so.”

Don’t we all.

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June 2009 review:

There’s nothing I could say about Carl Sagan (his work, his writing, his imitable open-minded approach to our world and everything beyond it) that hasn’t already been said, but I think that if there were one person, living or dead, with whom I could talk for days on end, my pick would be him.