Big Ideas: Carl Sagan
What
an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which
are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re
inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of
years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently
inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human
inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of
distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans
are capable of working magic. [Carl Sagan]
from, Cosmos, Part 11, 1980 |
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