How propheic was Carl Sagan's statement from the Introduction to Broca's Brain in October of 1978. 

This book written just before-at most, I believe, a few years or a few decades before-the answers to many of those vexing and awesome  questions on origins and fates are pried loose from the cosmos.  If we do not destroy ourselves, most of us will be around for the answers.  Had we been born fifty years earlier, we could have wondered, pondered, speculated about these issues, but we could have done notheing about them. Had we been born fifty years later, the answers would, I think, already have been in.  Our children will have been taught the answers before most of them will have had an opportunity to formulate the questions. By far the most exciting, satifying and exhilerating time to be alive is the time we pass from ignorance to knowlege of these fundamental issues; the age where we begin in wonder and end in understanding. In all the four-billion-year history of life on our planet, in all the four-million-year history of the human family, there is only one generation privileged to live through that unique transitional moment, that generation is ours.

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