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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
Carl Sagan
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Carl Sagan
Age: 62 †
Born: 1934
Born: November 9
Died: 1996
Died: December 20
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If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.
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In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.
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My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it. An agnostic is somebody who doesn’t believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I’m agnostic.
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The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.
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Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
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