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Aug 25, 2017
Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
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it was amazing
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Ah, Neil. I knew I would like this book. He writes the way he speaks, and I heard him speak when he came to the college where I worked a couple of years ago. He has a gift for explaining the complex ideas of astrophysics so that anyone can understand them, with a touch of humor thrown in. I took physics and astronomy in college, so many of the ideas were familiar to me, but, even so, he made me look at them in new ways. I also learned some new things. I liked the idea that we are all, as Carl Sa
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I love Neil deGrasse Tyson's passion and enthusiasm. It's wonderful to listen to him read his book. He really finds astrophysics beautiful, amazing and awesome and manages to convey it. I'm at awe by the magnificence of... all this. Physics, science, people who figured all this out... Absolutely wonderful.
I also love the nods to the popular culture :-) It was very easy to listen, with all the humor inserted.
BUT
I also love the nods to the popular culture :-) It was very easy to listen, with all the humor inserted.
BUT
“What happened before all this? What happened before the beginning? Astrophysicists...more
Piques imagination
Well written essays on what astronomy has done for us and what the main topics of curiosity are on today’s scientists’ minds. Whets one appetite to do a little more digging without being overly technical.
Well written essays on what astronomy has done for us and what the main topics of curiosity are on today’s scientists’ minds. Whets one appetite to do a little more digging without being overly technical.
Mar 09, 2018
Michelle
marked it as to-read
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Nov 27, 2018
Marla
marked it as to-listen
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Apr 20, 2019
Saba A
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really liked it
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