Broca's Brain

Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science

Cover of the first edition
Author	Carl Sagan
Country	United States
Language	English
Subjects	Intellect, brain, space sciences, Paul Broca
Publisher	Random House
Publication date	1979 (1st edition, hardcover)
Media type	Print (hardcover and paperback)
Pages	347 (1st edition, hardcover)
ISBN	0-394-50169-1 (1st edition, hardcover)
OCLC	4493944
Dewey Decimal	128/.2
LC Class	BF431 .S19
Preceded by	The Dragons of Eden
Followed by	Cosmos

Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science is a 1979 book by the astrophysicist Carl Sagan. Its chapters were originally articles published between 1974 and 1979 in various magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, Physics Today, Playboy, and Scientific American. In the introduction, Sagan wrote:^[1]

As long as there have been human beings, we have posed the deep and fundamental questions. ... If we do not destroy ourselves, most of us will be around for the answers. ... By far the most exciting, satisfying and exhilarating time to be alive is the time in which we pass from ignorance to knowledge on these fundamental issues.

— p. xiii