My science hero, Carl Sagan!

I had forgotten until recently how many books by Carl Sagan I have enjoyed. But I have been rereading and rediscovering Sagan's genius in The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God. This was edited posthumously by his widow, Ann Druyan, in 2006. It is a superbly written book and typical Sagan in its richness of detailed insight, imagination, fact, poetic prose, clever wit, and penetrating perspicacity. His perceptions on the origins of belief systems and the question of the existence of God are masterfully and perceptively presented. I read a quote by science fiction writer, Isaac Asimov, who said that Sagan knew more about the universe than he did. And on the back of this book is a quote by Kurt Vonnegut. It reads, "Find here a major fraction of this stunningly valuable legacy left to all of us by a great human being. I miss him so." Amen to that!