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• The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.

  Cosmos (1980)

  Carl Sagan
  American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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• fundamental
• successors
• forgotten
• citizens
• universe
• rejected

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