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Carl Sagan was a humanist who strived to teach science as a way of thinking and interpreting the world. His 1995 book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark was a kind of message he left to humanity before he died of cancer.
See also: Carl Sagan's January 1994 notice to the USA Public as a warning.
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I'm not sure what part of that anecdote makes Sagan a dick. Jobs on the other hand...
Steve Jobs wasn't at Apple when this happened. Sagan sued for an internal codename that was not meant to go public. Steve was a dick. Carl was a dick. People who achieve a lot can be dicks.