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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."

-Carl Sagan

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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."

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

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

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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."

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

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

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

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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."

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

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

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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."

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

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

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

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

-Carl Sagan

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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."

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"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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"We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology."

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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."

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"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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"We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology."

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

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