Carl Edward Sagan

(16 votes)   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.

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

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

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(13 votes)   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?

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(13 votes)   Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

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(33 votes)   There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity.

Carl Edward Sagan
1934-, American Astronomer, author

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(15 votes)   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.

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(15 votes)   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.

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(15 votes)   Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

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(15 votes)   The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

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(14 votes)   It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

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(14 votes)   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.

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

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

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(13 votes)   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.

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