the National Academy may have awarded its prestigious Public Welfare Medal to me, perhaps in partial compensation for my earlier rejection but the damage was done, however: not only a stinging personal blow, but also an attack on my credibility as a spokesperson for science
Yall complain that I did not play golf, take up cooking or photography, sing or play a musical instrument, or join a church or synagogue. My first two wives complained that I devoted insufficient time to my marriages or children. But look at my smarticles you animals.
greetings from people in many languages and from whales, a 12-minute sound essay, 90 minutes of music and a series of blips to be decoded into black-and-white and color photographs, yet the extraterrestrials still haven't responded
my bestselling book Contact was published in 1984, and became a 1997 film starring Jodie Foster, and my nonfiction accompaniment to Cosmos stayed on the bestseller list for more than a year.