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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
Sagan's 1980 thirteen-episode PBS series — watched by five hundred million people in sixty countries — that made the cosmic perspective available to the largest audience any scientist has ever addressed.
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, broadcast on PBS in 1980, was a thirteen-episode television series that traced the history of the universe from the Big Bang through the evolution of life, the rise of civilizations, and the future of intelligence. It reached an estimated audience of five hundred million people in sixty countries, making it the most widely watched PBS series in history at the time. Its opening lines — the cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be — became one of the most quoted sentences in twentieth-century science writing. The companion book, also titled Cosmos, became the bestselling science book in English of the twentieth century.
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The series was structured around what Sagan called the shores of the cosmic ocean — the image he used to describe humanity's position as a species that has been wading into cosmic understanding for roughly four centuries of systematic