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Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is . . .
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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Brooklyn
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Carl Edward Sagan
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Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.
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