[Happy Rain]

I bought his book “Cosmos” (the print companion to the PBS series of the same title) back in the eighties and still have it.

I know he was a bleeding heart liberal academic but he was good at making hard science interesting to the layman.

[samtheman]

I realized that and I watched his series, Cosmos, when it came out, and enjoyed it very much.

But he was deeply and severely flawed. If he were around today he would be working tirelessly to Hide The Decline.