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spark wonder in the world we live in : read Sagan, savor his delicious stories and examples
look from his eyes to see the, eclipses and galaxies, Be humble to one's fallibility, The obvious isn't obvious. Know the recipes of disasterpseudoscience, Understand the believers. Enjoy your vocation. Experiment, fail, retry. Keep your doors open to criticism, Sow the seeds of mental delight, Grow as a robust individual, Carl Sagan talks about science and how important it is for human being, he also highlights the tendency of what is happening now, that the jargon talk is what we live and the ambrosia and efficient useful talk is held back and hidden.

I would classify “Wonder and Skepticism” as an article rather than a book since it is quite few pages,
In, scientist Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn, N, Y. After earning bachelor and masters degrees at Cornell, Sagan earned a double doctorate at the University of Chicago in, He became professor of astronomy and space science and director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University, and co founder of the Planetary Society, A great popularizer of science, Sagan produced the PBS series, Cosmos, which was Emmy and Peabody award winning, and was watched bymillion people incountries.
A book of the same title came out in, and was on The New York Times bestseller list forweeks, Sagan was author, co author or editor ofbooks, including The Dragons of Eden, which won a Pulitzer, Pale Blue DotIn, scientist Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn, N.
Y. After earning bachelor and master's degrees at Cornell, Sagan earned a double doctorate at the University of Chicago in, He became professor of astronomy and space science and director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University, and co founder of the Planetary Society, A great popularizer of science, Sagan produced the PBS series, " Cosmos," which was Emmy and Peabody award winning, and was watched bymillion people incountries.
A book of the same title came out in, and was on The New York Times bestseller list forweeks, Sagan was author, co author or editor ofbooks, including The Dragons of Eden, which won a Pulitzer, Pale Blue Dotand The Demon Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark, his hardest hitting on religion.
With his wife, sitelink Ann Druyan, he was co producer of the popular motion picture, " Contact," which featured a feminist, atheist protagonist played by sitelink Jodie Foster.
The film came out after Sagan's death, following ayear struggle with a bone marrow disease, Sagan played a leading role in NASA's Mariner, Viking, Voyager, and Galileo expeditions to other planets,

sitelink Ann Druyan, in the epilogue to Sagan's last book, Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium published posthumously in, gives a moving account of Carl's last days: " Contrary to the fantasies of the fundamentalists, there was no deathbed conversion, no last minute refuge taken in a comforting vision of a heaven or an afterlife.
For Carl, what mattered most was what was true, not merely what would make us feel better, Even at this moment when anyone would be forgiven for turning away from the reality of our situation, Carl was unflinching, As we looked deeply into each other's eyes, it was with a shared conviction that our wondrous life together was ending forever, "For his work, Dr. Sagan received the NASA medals for Exceptional Scientific Achievement and twice for Distinguished Public Service, as well as the NASA Apollo Achievement Award, AsteroidSagan is named after him, He was also awarded the sitelink John F, Kennedy Astronautics Award of the American Astronautical Society, the Explorers Clubth Anniversary Award, the sitelink Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Medal of the Soviet Cosmonauts Federation, and the Masursky Award of the American Astronomical Society, " for his extraordinary contributions to the development of planetary scienceAs a scientist trained in both astronomy and biology, Dr.
Sagan has made seminal contributions to the study of planetary atmospheres, planetary surfaces, the history of the Earth, and exobiology, Many of the most productive planetary scientists working today are his present and former students and associates", He was also a recipient of the Public Welfare Medal, the highest award of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Sagan was elected Chairman of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, President of the Planetology Section of the American Geophysical Union, and Chairman of the Astronomy Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
For twelve years he was the editor in chief of Icarus, the leading professional journal devoted to planetary research, He was cofounder and President of the Planetary Society, a,member organization that is the largest space interest group in the world and Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.
In their posthumous award to Dr, Sagan of their highest honor, the National Science Foundation declared that his " research transformed planetary science his gifts to mankind were infinite, " D More: sitelink sitelink.