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The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.
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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I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It's up to you.
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I think if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.
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I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.
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The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.
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Is mankind alone in the universe? Or are there somewhere other intelligent beings looking up into their night sky from very different worlds and asking the same kind of question?
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I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this cosmos in which we float, like a mote of dust in the morning sky.
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I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.
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I don't want to believe. I want to know.
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