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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

~Carl Sagan

Topics: Body Knowledge More Much Science Than Thinking Way

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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

~Carl Sagan

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There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.

~Carl Sagan

Topics: Almost Also Black Blackness Blazing Darkness Depth Direction Endless Every Exists Extension Fierce Immortal Infinity Itself Light Nowhere Overwhelming Pure Sensation Where Wide

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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

~Carl Sagan

Topics: Exception Extinction Rule Survival

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

~Carl Sagan

Topics: Apple Apple Pie First Invent Make Must Pie Scratch Universe Wish You

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We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.

~Carl Sagan

Topics: Atoms Billion Cosmic Cosmos Evolution Example Given Hydrogen Representatives Years

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

~Carl Sagan

Topics: Carry Go Imagination Never Nowhere Often Us Were Will Without Worlds

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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

~Carl Sagan

Topics: Bearable Creatures Love Only Small Through Vastness

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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.

~Carl Sagan

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We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

~Carl Sagan

Topics: About After Animals Based Being Constructed Cosmic Course Created Egg Fiat Hatched How Hunger Imagine Invent Know Make Make Up Myths Other Ourselves Powerful Some Stories Understand Up Which World

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: November 9th, 1934

Died: December 20th, 1996

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