Good, but

It's a good book, but I had wrong expectations. Instead of a heavy focus on science, big parts were dedicated to witch hunting, psychology and politics. As a Belgian some parts were less relevant for me (my country doesn't face the same issues that USA faced in the time of writing)

4 Leute fanden das hilfreich

Der beste Populärwissenschaftler seiner Zeit

Carl Sagan hat mir in der 80ern die Augen für den Kosmos und die Erde mit ihren menschlichen Bewohnern und deren bunten Geschichte geöffnet und mich seitdem mit seinem profunden Wissen fasziniert - er war seitdem ein Vorbild für mich und ich habe alle seine Bücher.
Dies war der letzte Titel, der mir noch fehlte und er hat mich nicht enttäuscht.
Stimme ich mit jeder seiner Überlegungen überein? Nein, aber es ist schön über seine Überlegungen nachzudenken und ich weiß, dass ich nur wenig weiß, aber jeden Tag dazu lernen kann und will.

RIP und danke!

3 Leute fanden das hilfreich

Long yet perfect.

This might have been the most relevant book ive "read" recently. It could be shorter, yet it could also be longer. 5/5

like every other Carl sagan book.... amazing!

growing up without many means the books gave me a doorway to another world.... where you could do amazing experiments as a child and also learn to build stuff. now I'm a parent and this book gives me hope that one day i can give my daughter the things that i never had. like an mind-blowing experience in the planetarium or seeing dinosaur skeletons or the amazing pre Impressionism painters.

Why Americans are easily managed by the military.

Had wondered manytimes why the American educational system was diffrent from state to state. Easily managed when the thinking is left for others.

Text is fine, reader is not

The author writes about an idealized version of science that to my knowledge does not exist - I'm a scientist - but it sure sounds nice. The book describes well how science should work. There are a lot of interesting anecdotes about pseudoscience and how and why they were created and upheld.
The speaker intonates EVERY sentence as if it was the most important sentence in the book. Somebody should tell him to go down with his voice just once in a while. I find that tiring.

So important for our times

I love the book and it’s message, which I deem extremely important for being capable of dealing in a constructive way with the challenges of the World we call “Home”.

I would have wished for the voice of the main reader to be a little less “monotonous” sounding, but the content is far too interesting to me personally to use that as an excuse to stop listening.

We can all benefit from the wisdom and depth of insight Carl Sagan provided in this beautiful book.

It’s a must read!

This is wonderful book on reason, truth, free thinking and discovery of the world. I wish more people would make time to read and understand it.

Excelente uso de la historia para argumentar

Disfruté mucho aprendiendo y recordando esos hechos en la historia lejana y reciente que señalan al pensamiento crítico dentro del método científico, así como la promoción de la educación, cómo la mejor herramienta hacia la libertad