“We've arranged a global civilization in which
most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also
arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This
is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but
sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to
blow up in our faces.”
Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan (USA
1934 – 1996) wrote this list of books that, according to him, we should read.
This list today is in the Library of Congress of the United States of America.
1. “Timeo” (360 A.C.)
— Plato
2. “L’immoraliste”
(1902) — André Gide
3. “The Observational
Approach to Cosmology” (1937) — Edwin Hubble
4. “Who Speaks For
Man?” (1953) — Norman Cousins
5. “Young Archimedes
and Other Stories” (1924) — Aldous Huxley
6.”A History of
Western Philosophy” (1969) — W. T. Jones
7. “Extraordinary
Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” (1841) — Charles Mackay
8. “The Uses of the
Past: Profiles of Former Societies” (1952) — Herbert J. Muller
9. “La Biblia” —
Anónimo
10.”Julius Caesar”
(1599) — Shakespeare
11. “Heat and Thermodynamics” (1900) — Mark Waldo
Zemansky
12. “Education for
Freedom” (1943) — Robert Maynard Hutchins
13. “La República” (380 A.C.) — Platón
14. “Death Be Not
Proud” (1949) — John Gunther
15. “An Outline to
Psychology” (1949) — William McDougall
16.”In the Matter of”
(1954) — J. Robert Oppenheimer
17. “But We Were Born
Free” (1954) — Elmer Davis
18. “The Portable Greek
Reader” (1948) — W. H. Auden
19. “Quantitative
Aspects of Carcinogenic Radiation” (1952) — H. Davis
20. “The Kinetic
Theory of Gases” (1938) — E. H. Kennard
21. “Theory of Functions”
(1952) — Konrad Knopp
22. “Complex Analysis”
(1953) — Lars Ahlfors
23. “Introduction to
Electric Fields” (1954) — W. E. Rogers
24. “Electromagnetics”
(1949) — John D. Kraus
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