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“... 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.”

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Dr. Carl Sagan quotes (American Astronomer, Writer and Scientist, 1934-1996)

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“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”

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“You have to know the past to understand the present.”

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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.”

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“Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.”

Dr. Carl Sagan quotes (American Astronomer, Writer and Scientist, 1934-1996)

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“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

Dr. Carl Sagan quotes (American Astronomer, Writer and Scientist, 1934-1996)

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“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.”

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“There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.”

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“I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.”

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“You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.”

Anton Chekhov quotes (Russian playwright and master of the modern short story, 1860-1904)

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“We are a way for the cosmos to know itself”

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