Best biography on the late Dr Carl Sagan ?

Best biography on the late Dr Carl Sagan ?

Steffen View Member Profile	Mar 18 2006, 06:21 PM Post #1
Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 72 Joined: 22-December 05 Member No.: 616	Which is in Your opinion the best Sagan biography ? By The Way, is the DonDavis on this forum by any chance the Donald Davis of: http://www.donaldedavis.com/PARTS/SAGAN.html

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ljk4-1 View Member Profile	May 16 2006, 06:40 PM Post #2
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430	A new book based on lectures made by Sagan over twenty years ago will be coming out this fall. To quote: "The book, due for publication in November by The Penguin Press, is based on a series of talks Sagan gave at the University of Glasgow in 1985 as part of the Gifford Lectures on natural theology. After lying hidden for decades in Sagan's archives, the transcripts of the nine taped lectures were rediscovered just a few months ago, said Ann Druyan, the scientist's widow and longtime collaborator." The full article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12586173/#060502a -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined, and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

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Steffen Best biography on the late Dr Carl Sagan ? Mar 18 2006, 06:21 PM

Bob Shaw QUOTE (Steffen @ Mar 18 2006, 06:21 PM) W... Mar 18 2006, 06:30 PM

ectoterrestrial QUOTE (Steffen @ Mar 18 2006, 12:21 PM) W... Mar 18 2006, 06:35 PM

AlexBlackwell QUOTE (Steffen @ Mar 18 2006, 06:21 PM) W... Mar 18 2006, 06:44 PM

ljk4-1 I found Poundstone's book to be more focused o... Mar 18 2006, 07:00 PM

ectoterrestrial QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Mar 18 2006, 01:00 P... Mar 19 2006, 07:41 PM

PhilCo126 sure thing ljk4-1, on one of the CD-ROMs of the pa... Mar 18 2006, 07:15 PM

ljk4-1 If you scroll down most of the way on this Web pag... Mar 19 2006, 06:41 PM

ljk4-1 QUOTE (Steffen @ Mar 18 2006, 01:21 PM) W... Mar 20 2006, 05:11 PM

ljk4-1 Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1960 April; 46(4): 393–3... Mar 21 2006, 08:19 PM

AlexBlackwell Below is a post of mine I dug up from September 20... Mar 21 2006, 08:33 PM

odave I've often had to scratch my head at the way s... Mar 22 2006, 01:38 AM

ljk4-1 QUOTE (odave @ Mar 21 2006, 08:38 PM) I... Mar 22 2006, 02:57 PM

PhilCo126 Some interesting links: http://www.obits.com/sagan... Mar 22 2006, 01:27 PM

PhilCo126 He was a special human being ... but a human being... Mar 24 2006, 07:01 PM

Bill Harris >I've often had to scratch my head at the w... Mar 24 2006, 09:04 PM

ljk4-1 Three of Dr. Sagan's later technical papers ar... Apr 4 2006, 07:47 PM

ljk4-1 A new book based on lectures made by Sagan over tw... May 16 2006, 06:40 PM

AlexBlackwell QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ May 16 2006, 08:40 A... Jan 30 2007, 01:08 AM

PhilCo126 It has been 10 years since Dr Carl SAGAN deceased.... Dec 22 2006, 05:22 PM

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