Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. ✨ Carl Sagan (2006)…

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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. ✨ Carl Sagan (2006). The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God, p.76, Penguin
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