“Carbonaceous meteorites that fall to the Earth… have several percent to as much as 10 percent of complex organic matter in them.”

—  Carl Sagan

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)

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American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science ed… 1934–1996

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