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Carl Sagan

American

November 9, 1934

Scientist

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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

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

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

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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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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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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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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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