![]() ![]() He enjoyed writing for the magazine Parade, which was syndicated to more than half of all US newspapers, because through it he had access to 80 million readers. He did not expect people to know the facts of science – and he was conscious of science’s own occasional complacencies – but he did want people to understand the substance of science: the notion that startling claims should be supported by evidence that can be tested and challenged. Sagan spent most of his life taking other people seriously: he considered their fears, anxieties and obsessions he understood the appeal of easy explanations and glib answers and he made it his business to present the reality of the cosmos to readers and listeners in language that they could enjoy. ![]()
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