The companion book to Cosmos is also wonderful. If I were to pick one book to represent all of humanity, it would be Cosmos. And likewise If I were to pick one person from the present or the past to represent all of humanity, it would be Carl Sagan.
And of course I'll throw out yet another recommendation for Sagan's greatest book, "Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark".
edit: btw, the quote in my sig is from Cosmos.
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"For thousands of years humans were oppressed - as some of us still are - by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable." - Carl Sagan
Freedom consonant with responsibility.
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