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Carl Sagan [1934-1996] American

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Scientist, Astronomer

Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences.

Science, Technology, Space, Chance, Death, Education, Good, History, Imagination, Intelligence, Knowledge, Learning, Love, Nature, Power, Religion, Society

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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.	Knowledge, Science	101
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.	Imagination	102
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.	Power, Science, Technology	103
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.	Love	104
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.	Nature	105
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.	Science, Society, Technology	106
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.		107
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.		108
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.		109
When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.		110
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.		111
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.	Chance, Death, History, Learning	112
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.	Technology	113
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.		114
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.	Space	115
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.	Education, Science	116
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.	Good, Intelligence	117
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.	Space	118
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.		119
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.	Religion, Science	120
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?	Science	121
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.		122
I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.		123
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.		124
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.	Science, Technology	125

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