via explore-blog:
Carl Sagan, says one of his colleagues at Cornell, “is very often right and always interesting. That is in contrast to most academics, who are always right and not very interesting. ” In his books or off the cuff, on the lecture platform or sitting across from Johnny Carson, Sagan has a distinctive gift for expressing scientific notions vividly and with infectious enthusiasm.
October 19, 1980: The cover of TIME crowns Carl Sagan the “showman of science.” And for good reason – he had a singular way of enchanting people with the cosmos, knew how to capture the essence of science and its transcendent, spiritual quality, and he even received fan mail from Isaac Asimov.
If Time magazine covers actually did that, I would buy every single one.