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Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan

Carl Edward Sagan (; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences.

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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.

Tags: Stop, Ourselves, Kindly
Carl Sagan

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

Tags: Science, School, Often
Carl Sagan

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Tags: Intelligence, Brain, Muscle
Carl Sagan

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

Tags: Idea, Toward, Fanaticism
Carl Sagan

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

Tags: Without, Often, Carry
Carl Sagan

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

Tags: Drunk, Person, Anything
Carl Sagan

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

Tags: Must, Wish, Universe
Carl Sagan

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.

Tags: Respect, Yourself, Real
Carl Sagan

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Tags: Science, Deep, Thoughts
Carl Sagan

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

Tags: Knowledge, Thinking, Body
Carl Sagan

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