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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

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Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they are adequately tested-and you're not only unpleasantly grumpy, but also closed to the advance of science. A judicious mix is what we need.

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Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group.

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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.

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You have to know the past to understand the present.

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In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.

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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic.

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Organic as a dandelion seed, [the ship of our imagination] will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts

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We can make a similar examination, but with greater uncertainty, of the extraterrestrial hypothesis that holds that a wide range of UFOs viewed on the planet Earth are space vehicles from planets of other stars.

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Probably a dozen times since their death I've heard my mother or father, in an ordinary conversational tone of voice, call my name. They had called my name often during my life with them ... It doesn't seem strange to me.

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I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.

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Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species.

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These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victims of their very success, the explorers now pretty much stay home.

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

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We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet, are up for grabs.

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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

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I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most of the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C. by the Ionian philosopher Heraclitus as “nigh -walkers, magicians, priests of Bacchus, priestesses of the wine-vat, mystery-mongers.” But science is more intricate and subtle, reveals a much richer imiverse, and powerfully evokes our sense of wonder.

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The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls.

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Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth.

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If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?

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