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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
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The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work.
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But I could be wrong.
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If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.
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Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . .
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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