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Carl Sagan
“The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.”
Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Democritus
“By convention sweet and by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention color; but in reality atoms and void.”
Democritus

Alan Alda
“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
Alan Alda

Carl Sagan
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."

[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”
Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Lord Byron
“All who joy would win
Must share it -- Happiness was born a twin.”
George Gordon Byron, Don Juan

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