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20 DECEMBER, 2013

Varieties of Scientific Experience: Carl Sagan on Science and God

“If we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.”

13 NOVEMBER, 2013

Do Something Meaningful: Neil deGrasse Tyson and Ann Druyan on Carl Sagan

“Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others?”

22 JULY, 2013

Isaac Asimov’s Fan Mail to Young Carl Sagan

“You are my idea of a good writer because you have an unmannered style, and when I read what you write, I hear you talking.”

08 JULY, 2013

Carl Sagan on the Meaning of Life

“We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.”