Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
by Carl Sagan
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In this luminous final work, Carl Sagan brings his characteristic brilliance and wonder to humanity's most profound questions about life, death, the cosmos, and our place within it. Through a series of engaging essays, the renowned astronomer and scientist explores the origins and fate of the universe while grappling with deeply personal reflections on love, mortality, and spirituality—insights born from his own struggle with fatal illness. Sagan masterfully bridges the vast expanse of cosmic mysteries with the intimate landscape of human consciousness, demonstrating how scientific understanding and compassion can guide us through the challenges of a new millennium. With undiminished curiosity and eloquent clarity, he challenges us to confront the existential questions that define our era and to build a future grounded in both reason and humanity. A testament to one of the greatest scientific minds of our time, Billions & Billions stands as a profound meditation on what it means to be alive in an incomprehensibly vast universe.
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paperback
Ballantine Books
Published May 12, 1998
322 pages
ISBN: 9780345379184
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First Published
1998
Language
eng
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