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Science is only a Latin word for knowledge
Carl Sagan
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Carl Sagan
Age: 62 †
Born: 1934
Born: November 9
Died: 1996
Died: December 20
Astronomer
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Planetary Scientist
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Brooklyn
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Carl Edward Sagan
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Time spent with children is time well spent. Their little minds are not constrained by 'reality' or focused upon goals. Anything and everything is possible. Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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