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

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

Carl Sagan
1980
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Apple pieOrigin of the universeThe universe
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1980
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Carl Sagan
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"The Lives of Stars." Presented by Carl Sagan. Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, season 1, episode 8. PBS, 23 Nov. 1980.

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