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Carl Sagan

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“Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave.” Carl Sagan, Contact
“Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are.” Carl Sagan, Contact
“Isn't a gram of observation worth a ton of theory? ” Carl Sagan, Contact
“Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.” Carl Sagan, Contact
“It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.” Carl Sagan, Contact
“it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.” Carl Sagan, Contact
“if your God wanted to convince us, he could have done a much better job.” Carl Sagan, Contact
“It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, and there's this couple lying naked in bed reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more 'numinous' than the Resurrection. Do they know how to have a...” Carl Sagan, Contact
“A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.” Carl Sagan, Contact

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