the very first "cosmos" exactly 40 years ago, carl sagan and stevens odor and i celebrated the libraryf alexandria. the library of congress means so very much to me because of the democratic idea of the world's knowledge to all of us so it is my honor to be here. to talk about possible worlds, the book i have written and the television series i had the pleasure of producing, writing and directing with my collaborator. why "cosmos: possible worlds," why a third "cosmos" after 30 years? the first "cosmos" was an effort to give the broadest possible public, a global public its coordinates in space and time. it was carl sagan's dream, one that i completely share, that how we find our way in the cosmos, the great story of 40,000 generations of human beings who in one way or another added to our current understanding, the wonderful inspiring stories to a global audience so as many of us as possible could have a cosmic perspective for space and time and in that original series there was the cosmic calendar in which we compressed what was then thought to be something like 18 billion year of co

student and denied not come from the love of science and begin to feel included and then when i met carl saganiew one of the greatest teachers of the last sovereign years of more when i met carl and had the honor and privilege to spend 20 years thinking with him, riding with him, building our beautiful family together, i felt this overwhelming desire to share the spiritual uplift and joy, the pleasure of knowing even a little bit about the universe revealed by science with everyone on earth and as he used to say why do you spend all the time in the laboratory, why don't you go on television shows and go to immigration and naturalization ceremonies and kindergarten and so many other things that he did to talk about science, he would say when you are in love, you want to tell the world and that's how i feel about my book which is very personal and many ways impersonal in ways that the television show could not be, i felt that's what i wanted to do was to share this knowledge which was no longer to me, no longer boring, no longer something that i felt alienated from but instead i felt an evangeli

stories come from from the research in mind of andrew in whose deceit sauce of all 3 cosmos as carl sagan 2014 and this year 2020 she's the that the principal writer of record there are other writers that come in and out over the over those years but she's been all right all 3 she she's highly scientifically literate and deeply enlightened in a way where she can see how science can be not just something you learn but something you take to heart and stumping that you embrace take ownership of and decide yes i'm now empowered to make a better world based on what i just learned that is the d.n.a. of cosmos and i'm privileged to be host of it by the way it has the same distribution as in 2014 so it's 187 countries 47 translations. that a friend of mine got one where apparently i'm speaking brilliant spanish and it. is ideal you learn spanish really whoops so they've been $47.00 translations and it's called cosmos possible worlds which is an exploration not just of yes exoplanets that are out there those are fun to think about but but there's there's what kind of world obv do we have the power