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• Recent research shows that many children without enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn (“cognitive impairment” ). Children don't have to be starving for this to happen. Even mild undernourishment — the kind most common among poor people in America — can do it.

  Carl Sagan

  Children, Wind, America

  "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark".

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• In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

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  Emptiness, Found, Contact

  "Fictional character: Alien". "Contact", 1997.

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• The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths.

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  Sacred

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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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  Stars, Believe, Thinking

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

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  Sea, Sailor, Breeze

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.337, Ballantine Books

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• Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

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  Smart, Stupid, Equal

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.310, Ballantine Books

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• The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.

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  Understanding, Cosmos, Joining

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.53, Ballantine Books

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• We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery.

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  Discovery, Self, Events

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.348, Ballantine Books

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• A general problem with much of Western theology in my view is that the god portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy much less of a universe.

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  Views, World, Tiny

  Carl Sagan (2006). “The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God”, p.48, Penguin

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• Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence to make them believable.

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  Observation, Evidence, Extraordinary

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• Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other, that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable. What is necessary is to reduce the matches and to clean up the gasoline.

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  Science, Two, Enemy

  During a panel discussion in ABC News Viewpoint following the TV movie "The Day After", November 20, 1983.

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• Every time you look up at the sky, every one of those points of light is a reminder that fusion power is extractable from hydrogen and other light elements, and it is an everyday reality throughout the Milky Way Galaxy.

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  Reality, Light, Sky

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• We wish to find the truth, no matter where it lies. But to find the truth we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact.

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  Lying, Imagination, Wish

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Documentary (1990 Update). Episode 1: "The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean", 1990.

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• .. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the 'Momentary' masters of a 'Fraction' of a 'Dot'

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  Thinking, Blood, Rivers

  Carl Sagan, Tom Head (2006). “Conversations with Carl Sagan”, p.16, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.

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  Stars, Night, Views

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.249, Ballantine Books

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• The Romans called the Christians atheists. Why? Well, the Christians had a god of sorts, but it wasn't a real god. They didn't believe in the divinity of apotheosized emperors or Olympian gods. They had a peculiar, different kind of god. So it was very easy to call people who believed in a different kind of god atheists. And that general sense that an atheist is anybody who doesn't believe exactly as I do prevails in our own time.

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  Christian, Atheist, Real

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• The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

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  Cosmos, Existentialism, Benign

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 250, 1980.

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• How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?

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  Prophet, Subtle, Bigger

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.71, Ballantine Books

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• The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.

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  Dark, Science, Perfect

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

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  Ambition, Science, Perfect

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.230, Ballantine Books

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

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  Technology, Civilization, Elements

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• I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

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  Philosophy, Religion, Doctrine

  Carl Sagan (2006). “The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God”, p.130, Penguin

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• We were wanderers from the beginning.

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  Wanderers

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.14, Ballantine Books

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• She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

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  Messages, Vastness, Small Creatures

  Carl Sagan (1997). “Contact”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group Groups of people from divergent ethnic and cultural backgrounds working in some sense together [is] surely a humanizing and character building experience. If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.

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  Loyalty, Character, People

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.371, Ballantine Books

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