The Varieties of Scientific Experience

A Personal View of the Search for God

Paperback, 304 pages

English language

Published Nov. 6, 2007 by Penguin (Non-Classics).

ISBN:
978-0-14-311262-4
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OCLC Number:
170956056

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On the 10th anniversary of his death, brilliant astrophysisist and Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sagan's prescient exploration of the relationship between religion and science and his personal search for God.Carl Sagan is considered one of the greatest scientific minds of our time. His remarkable ability to explain science in terms easily understandable to the layman in bestselling books such as Cosmos, The Dragons of Eden, and The Demon-Haunted World won him a Pulitzer Prize and placed him firmly next to Isaac Asimov, Stephen Jay Gould, and Oliver Sachs as one of the most important and enduring communicators of science. In December 2006 it will be the tenth anniversary of Sagan's death, and Ann Druyan, his widow and longtime collaborator, will mark the occasion by releasing Sagan's famous "Gifford Lectures in Natural Theology," The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God.The chance to give the Gifford …

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Subjects

  • Religion And Science
  • Science
  • Science/Mathematics
  • Cosmology
  • Philosophy & Social Aspects
  • Religion & Science
  • Science / Cosmology
  • Institutions & Organizations