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Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.
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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Brooklyn
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Carl Edward Sagan
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If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy.
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It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.
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In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.
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If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?
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