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I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.

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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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If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.

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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

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If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be real scientific data, not mere anecdote. As with the face on Mars and alien abductions, better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.

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If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out the way he wants? Why's he constantly repairing and complaining? No, there's one thing the Bible makes clear: The biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer. He's not good at design, he's not good at execution. He'd be out of business, if there was any competition.

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We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.

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We have heard the rationales offered by the nuclear superpowers. We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the human species? Who speaks for Earth?

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It's sometimes easier to reject strong evidence than to admit that we've been wrong, this is information about ourselves worth having.

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In more than one respect, the exploring of the Solar System and homesteading other worlds constitutes the beginning, much more than the end, of history.

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We are all made up of star stuff.

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The fact that so little of the findings of modern science is prefigured in Scripture to my mind casts further doubt on it divine inspiration.

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If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.

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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

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In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

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[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true.

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A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.

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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

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If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.

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