War is murder writ large.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

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About Carl Sagan

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Carl Edward Sagan (; SAY-gən; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist and science communicator. Initially an assistant professor at Harvard, Sagan later moved to Cornell, where he was the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and directed the Laboratory for Planetary...

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Nobody listens to mathematicians

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we are.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

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Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

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So you think *I'm* the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you that I'm not, be the next victim?'/ 'Well, that would be a start.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

—Albert Einstein

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How many women, she wondered, had poisoned their husbands, not for gain or for another man, but out of sheer inability to leave them. The extreme solution is always the simplest. The weed killer is in the soup; the man is in his coffin. . . . Murder is more civilized than divorce; the Victorians, as usual, were wiser.

—Mary McCarthy

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