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Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes

«If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.»
«You have to know the past to understand the present.»
«We are star-stuff»
«Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.»
«... the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.»
«Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used»
«We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think its forever.»
«We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has stopped. Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation.»
«Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.»
«A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.»

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