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When permitted to listen to alternative opinions and engage in substantive debate, people have been known to change their minds. It can happen.

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Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.

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I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

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The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.

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In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the Catholic Church until 1816. The last bastion of support for the reality of witchcraft and the necessity of punishment has been the Christian churches.

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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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Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

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For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.

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Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.

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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.

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Which aspects of our nature will prevail is uncertain, particularly when our visions and prospects are bound to one small part of the small planet Earth. But up there in the Cosmos an inescapable perspective awaits.

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The desire to be connected with the cosmos reflects a profound reality, but we are connected; not in the trivial ways that astrology promises, but in the deepest ways.

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Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.

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Any sufficiently crisp question can be answered by a single binary digit-0 or 1, yes or no.

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The visions we offer our children shape the future.

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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.

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That we can now think of no mechanism for astrology is relevant but unconvincing. No mechanism was known, for example, for continental drift when it was proposed by Wegener. Nevertheless, we see that Wegener was right, and those who objected on the grounds of unavailable mechanism were wrong.

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An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and many books - might easily conclude that we are intent on teaching them murder, rape, cruelty, superstition, credulity, and consumerism. We keep at it, and through constant repetition many of them finally get it.

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Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience.

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First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?

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