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