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Carl Sagan
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Carl Sagan
Age: 62 †
Born: 1934
Born: November 9
Died: 1996
Died: December 20
Astronomer
Astrophysicist
Cosmologist
Naturalist
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
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Planetary Scientist
Science Communicator
Brooklyn
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Carl Edward Sagan
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we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers
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Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.
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That we can now think of no mechanism for astrology is relevant but unconvincing. No mechanism was known, for example, for continental drift when it was proposed by Wegener. Nevertheless, we see that Wegener was right, and those who objected on the grounds of unavailable mechanism were wrong.
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At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.
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Religions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there's no reason why religions have to play that role. In a way, it's an artefact from times long gone.
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There is never only ONE of anything in nature.
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Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions, to be ruthlessly self-critical. Science is a collective enterprise with the error-correction machinery often running smoothly.
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In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If we wish courageously to pursue the question, we must, of course ask next where God comes from? And if we decide this to be unanswerable, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always existed?
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Human beings grew up in forests we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.
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Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.
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The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.
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The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out.
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It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.
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Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.
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Science is only a Latin word for knowledge
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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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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.
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We wish to find the truth, no matter where it lies. But to find the truth we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact.
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We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.
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