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When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

~Carl Sagan

Topics: Earth Even Finding Finding Yourself Forget Last Light Make Never Never Forget Person See You Yourself

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Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.

~Carl Sagan

Topics: Challenged Cosmic Dark Delusion Great Imagined Light Lonely Our Our Planet Pale Planet Point Position Privileged Self-Importance Some Universe

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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

~Carl Sagan

Topics: Benign Hostile Indifferent Merely Neither Nor Seems Universe

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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

~Carl Sagan

Topics: Am Amazed Among Capability College College Students Elementary Elementary School Enthusiasm How How Much More Much Often School Science Students Than Youngsters I Am

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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

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

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The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

~Carl Sagan

Topics: Before Clearly Confused Credulous Dangers Ever Greater Lethal More Much Never New Now Our Something Something New Than Thinking Way Ways

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We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have children, and develop a rich social, sexual, and intellectual life, but we know almost nothing about our surroundings.

~Carl Sagan

Topics: About Almost Almost Nothing Animals Children Community Develop Hunt Intellectual Intellectual Life Know Life Million Million Years Nothing Our Out Plain Rich Sexual Small Social Some Start Surroundings Years Years Ago

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We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.

~Carl Sagan

Topics: Bad Planet Save Trouble Trying Understand Very

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

~Carl Sagan

Topics: Any Because Clergy Fanaticism Good Good Idea Hereditary Idea Propensity Suppress Tends Toward

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I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.

~Carl Sagan

Topics: Books Emotions Evolution Human Human Emotions Human Intelligence Humans Intelligence Number Written

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: November 9th, 1934

Died: December 20th, 1996

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