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Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.
Carl Sagan
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Carl Sagan
Age: 62 †
Born: 1934
Born: November 9
Died: 1996
Died: December 20
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Carl Edward Sagan
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Religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. ... near the core of the religious experience is something remarkably resistant to rational inquiry.
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What's the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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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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For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled, even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten: The open road still softly calls like a nearly forgotten song of childhood.
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For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.
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I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue.
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