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You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares.
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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Cosmologist
Naturalist
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
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Planetary Scientist
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Brooklyn
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Carl Edward Sagan
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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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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God,' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.
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If we teach only the findings and products of science - no matter how useful and even inspiring they may be - without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from pseudoscience?
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By exploring other worlds we safeguard this one. By itself, I think this fact more than justifies the money our species has spent in sending ships to other worlds. It is our fate to live during one of the most perilous and, at the same time, one of the most hopeful chapters in human history.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate....Try science.
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Discussing the possibilities of extraterrestrial life: I would love it even if they were short, sullen, grumpy and sexually obsessed. But there just isn't any good evidence.
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These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victims of their very success, the explorers now pretty much stay home.
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One trend that bothers me is the glorification of stupidity, that the media is reassuring people it's alright not to know anything. That to me is far more dangerous than a little pornography on the Internet.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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We are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible and which are not.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.
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