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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Carl Sagan



Biography
Author Profession: Scientist
Nationality: American
Born: November 9, 1934
Died: December 20, 1996

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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Carl Sagan

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Carl Sagan

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan

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.
Carl Sagan

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.
Carl Sagan

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Carl Sagan

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Awake, Basic, Citizenry, Deserves, How, Minds, Needs, Our, Species, Understanding, Wide, Works, World
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Awake, Basic, How, Needs, Our, Species, Understanding, Wide, World
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