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Science is based on experimen...

Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science sometimes requires courage - at the very least the courage to question the conventional wisdom.

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One of the greatest gifts adu...

One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.

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The idea that God is an overs...

The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God,' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.

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Our ancestors lived out of do...

Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.

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For me, the most ironic token...

For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads, ‘We came in peace for all Mankind.’ As the United States was dropping seven and a half megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock.

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Ask courageous questions. D...

Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers. Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge, without exception, to intense skeptical scrutiny. Be aware of human fallibility. Cherish your species and your planet.

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I think the health of our civ...

I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.

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Extraordinary claims demand e...

Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence

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In our obscurity - in all thi...

In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

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We hunger to understand, so w...

We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

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For small creatures such as w...

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

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Our species needs, and deserv...

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

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It is far better to grasp the...

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

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The professed function of the...

The professed function of the nuclear weapons on each side is to prevent the other side from using their nuclear weapons. If that's all it is, then we've gotta as: how many nuclear weapons do you need to do that?

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For me, it is far better to g...

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

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If we long to believe that th...

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

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We live in a society exquisit...

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

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The Earth is a very small sta...

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

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Science is a way of thinking ...

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

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Imagination will often carry ...

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

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