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It was 25 feet high in height, below ground. Part of it was below ground. And there were, I thought, hundreds of thousands of items that were in there. And truly there were millions of items.


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CARL SAGAN In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my positio...
CARL SAGAN You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such...
CARL SAGAN I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence,...
CARL SAGAN Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us ...
CARL SAGAN The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from ...
CARL SAGAN The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and c...
CARL SAGAN Human divisions would be child's play for any reasonably competent alien overlord to exploit - c...
NICK SAGAN The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.
CARL SAGAN The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus w...
CARL SAGAN [When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996...
CARL SAGAN I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering ...
CARL SAGAN For a genre that's about looking to the future, science fiction has sure been looking backwards ...
NICK SAGAN It is said that men may not be the dreams of the Gods, but rather that the Gods are the dreams of me...
CARL SAGAN The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us ...
CARL SAGAN Higher levels of technology allow fewer people to do more damage.
NICK SAGAN The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ours...
CARL SAGAN Ann Druyan suggests an experiment: Look back again at the pale blue dot of the preceding chapter. Ta...
CARL SAGAN To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter
F. SAGAN We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal's 'Pensees' and read, 'I am...
CARL SAGAN We have swept through all of the planets in the solar system, from Mercury to Neptune, in a historic...
CARL SAGAN The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they ...
CARL SAGAN We tend to hear much more about the splendors returned than the ships that brought them or the shipw...
CARL SAGAN For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Ri...
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