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

- Carl Sagan

Source/Notes: Chapter 14 (p. 244) - Contact (1985)

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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.”

- Carl Sagan

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“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.”

- Carl Sagan

Source/Notes: Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science (2011 edition), Ballantine Books - ISBN: 9780307800992

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“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”

- Carl Sagan

Source/Notes: Ch. 1 : The Most Precious Thing, p. 12 - The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995)

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

- Carl Sagan

Source/Notes: Chapter 24 (p. 430) - Contact (1985)

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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

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“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.”

- Carl Sagan

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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?”

- Carl Sagan

Source/Notes: Ch. 1 : The Most Precious Thing, p. 12 - The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995)

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

- Carl Sagan

Source/Notes: Cosmos (1980)

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

- Carl Sagan

Source/Notes: Cosmos (1980)

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“It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”

- Carl Sagan

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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

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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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“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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