F. Sagan
F. Sagan
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We have swept through all of the planets in the solar system, from Mercury to Neptune, in a historic 20 (to) 30 year age of spacecraft discovery,
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Bill Graham was a pack rat. I think Bill Graham just put everything down in that storage area and was going to keep it forever.
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I thought there was maybe a half million to a million slides and negatives. As it turned out, there's probably is closer to a million and a half to two million slides and negatives.
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For most of human history we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Who are we? What are we? We find that we inhabit an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are
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We've been told that there exists no other trove of rock-and-roll history that is anywhere near the size of this anywhere else.
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We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has stopped. Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation.
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Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we this way and not some other? What does it mean to be human? Are we capable, if need be, of fundamental change, or do the dead hands of forgotten ancestors impel us in some direction, indiscriminately for good or ill, and beyond our control? Can we alter our character? Can we improve our societies? Can we leave our children a world better than the one that was left to us? Can we free them from the demons that torment us and haunt our civilization? In the long run, are we wise enough to know what changes to make? Can we be trusted with our own future?
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think its forever.
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The significance of a finding that there are other beings who share this universe with us would be absolutely phenomenal, it would be an epochal event in human history,
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Are we an exceptionally unlikely accident or is the universe brimming over with intelligence? (It's) a vital question for understanding ourselves and our history,
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense
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In my opinion it's worth a significant amount more. It certainly is in excess of $50 million. It's probably in excess of $100 million.
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I like men to behave like men - strong and childish
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In the audio and video archives, there are 7,000 taped concerts alone. I'm a rock fan who wanted to get into the music business and own intellectual property.