Broca's Brain - Carl Sagan [0]
and popular advocate of the wonders of
science in the United States.”
—The New York Times Books Review
“He not only can make complex scientific matters understandable to the general reader, but does so in entrancing ways as well.”
—Associated Press
“Sagan can write about anything … and seem as if he learned what he knows while playing in the sandbox.”
—The New York Times
“Sagan has a love affair going with the universe.…You cannot come away unmoved from an encounter with him. He is full of intensity, of fascination, of courtesy, and of a lust for accuracy and truth.…Sagan blows through my head like a tornado, filling me with questions and with joy.”
—The Detroit News
“Sagan overwhelms us, overpowering our senses.…[He] sweeps us off our simple planet earth and into interplanetary space.”
—The San Diego Union
“Devastating, balanced, unforgettable.”
—Science
“He has the confidence and ability to range widely beyond his specialties, an infectious enthusiasm for ideas, delight in the ‘romance of science’ and optimism for the future.… Sagan has probably done more than anyone else to make wonders of science readily available to the intelligent lay readers of this country.”
—The Pittsburgh Press
“Throughout, Sagan’s writing is eloquent and refreshing, his subjects wide-ranging and stimulating. He easily communicates the careful reason, the lively imagination, and the contagious enthusiasm that have made him the nation’s best-known scientist.”
—The Charlotte Observer
“The love and enthusiasm he exudes in his writings is infectious. He goads us to greater understanding by stimulating our intelligence.…Sagan dazzles.”
—American Way
“Intellectually omnivorous, utterly understandable … A brilliant book!”
—Vogue
“The best nonfiction bet of the year.”
—The Denver Post
“Every generation needs one scientist of impeccable credentials who is capable of explaining, in reasonably clear English and without sounding patronizing, what the hell is going on in our labs and think-tanks. At the moment, the chair is occupied (and very ably) by Carl Sagan, whose Dragons of Eden has already garnered a Pulitzer Prize.”
—The Houston Post
“In the hands of an extraordinary scientist like Carl Sagan, the presentation of science as it really is becomes the exhilarating adventure it ought to be.”
—Worcester Telegram
“Articulate, entertaining, and occasionally profound, he does what few other respected scientists can or have bothered to do—he gives science to the people. BROCA’S BRAIN is a marvelous gift.”
—The Providence Journal
“Sagan is enjoying himself.… The puzzles and enigmas of the universe are unending. It is a scientist’s delight in them that runs through all the parts of BROCA’S BRAIN.”
—Washington Star
By Carl Sagan
Published by Ballantine Books:
BILLIONS & BILLIONS
BROCA’S BRAIN
COMET
COSMOS
THE DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD
THE DRAGONS OF EDEN
MURMURS OF EARTH
PALE BLUE DOT
SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS
(with Ann Druyan)
A Ballantine Book
Published by The Random House Publishing Group
Copyright © 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 by Carl Sagan
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Portions of this work have previously appeared in American Scholar, Atlantic Monthly, Book Digest, Holiday, Mercury, Natural History, New Republic, New York Times Magazine, Physics Today, Playboy, Scientific American, Smithsonian Magazine, TV Guide and Vogue (British).
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
Cornell University Press: “An Analysis of ‘Worlds in Collision’ ” by Carl Sagan, in Scientists Confront Velikovsky, edited by D. Goldsmith. Copyright © 1976 by Cornell University Press.
Encyclopedia Americana: “UFO’s.” Copyright © 1975 by Americana