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How Science Finds Things Out
Explore discovery, evidence, error, and the people who changed scientific understanding through new questions, tools, and observations.
Books in this collection
A Short History of Nearly Everything
From the Big Bang and the making of Earth to cells, evolution, and human origins, this journey asks how a habitable world and its astonishing diversity emerged from ordinary matter—and what our incomplete knowledge reveals about humanity’s fragile place and responsibility within it.
The Demon-Haunted World
The Demon-Haunted World asks how people can distinguish reliable knowledge from comforting stories in a technologically powerful society. Sagan joins wonder to skepticism, then traces the question through UFOs, memory, education, media, scientific responsibility, and democratic freedom. The practical value is a disciplined way to test claims without losing humane curiosity.
