What better book is there to start this article with than the first among the most popular Carl Sagan books? This book is so well known that you will sometimes see the scientist being mentioned as “Carl Sagan (author of Cosmos)” in some sources. He would be awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in 1954, and he would go on to complete his Ph.D. While he was going through the undergraduate program that he would say “nothing”, he joined the university’s astronomy club and worked with a colleague named Harold Urey to write a thesis on the origins of life. He attended the University of Chicago at the age of 16, which was one of the colleges without strict age requirements. Sagan also stated that they were Reform Judaists, which also affected him in some ways. He would take on the curiosity of his father and the ambition of his mother who wasn’t able to pursue hers because of her circumstances. The scientist was born to a father who was a Russian Empire immigrant from a city located inside today’s Ukrainian borders and her mother was from New York where she gave birth to Sagan in 1934. Not only was he prominent in multiple fields of astronomy and some other scientific areas, but he also dutied himself with getting everyone -especially younger people- familiar with and involved in these fields.

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The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan