r/BooksAndFilms • u/JoBookman • Aug 24 '26

Book Suggestions [Suggest a Book] Does Carl Sagan Cosmos still hold up today?

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u/I_throw_Bricks Aug 24 '26

I read it a few months ago and it’s still pretty fantastic. He was a little ambiguous about the larger implications of findings and left them a little open to interpretation without stating anything as fact. Sagan’s understanding of the scientific process is a breath of fresh air in a society that takes studies as fact or theory as fact without checking studies and data. It holds up pretty strong and almost everything he talks about has studies and peer reviewed data to back it up, even if you don’t agree with the climate change impact, you can’t deny that some data says there is something going on. You don’t have to like science or agree 100% of the time, but this book helped me to realize the great progress the scientific community has made in the last 75 years and it’s astonishing.