Broca's Brain

Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Cover of the first edition
AuthorCarl Sagan
LanguageEnglish
SubjectsIntellect, brain, space sciences, Paul Broca
PublisherRandom House
Publication date
1979 (1st edition, hardcover)
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover and paperback)
Pages347 (1st edition, hardcover)
ISBN0-394-50169-1 (1st edition, hardcover)
OCLC4493944
128/.2
LC ClassBF431 .S19
Preceded byThe Dragons of Eden 
Followed byCosmos 

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