Quote: Carl Sagan

 

 "A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic."

- Carl Sagan (1934 – 1996)

Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, populariser and science communicator in the space and natural sciences. During his lifetime, he published more than 600 scientific papers and popular articles and was author, co-author, or editor of more than 20 books. In his works, he advocated skeptical enquiry and the scientific method. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Serach for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI).