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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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It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

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Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.

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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.

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It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so doing it discriminates among the waves, and that the sky is blue for the same reason that the sunset is red? It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.

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We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

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Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition.

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If you want to make a [rhubarb] pie from scratch, first you have to create the universe.

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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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An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.

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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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Whatever the reason you're on Mars, I'm glad you're there, and I wish I was with you.

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The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 10(14) neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness.

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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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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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Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.

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We are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible and which are not.

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The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them - the sense that we have a monopoly on the truth; that those other people who believe in all these stupid doctrines are morons; that if you're sensible, you'll listen to us; and if not, to hell with you. This is nonconstructive. It does not get our message across. It condemns us to permanent minority status.

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Discussing the possibilities of extraterrestrial life: I would love it even if they were short, sullen, grumpy and sexually obsessed. But there just isn't any good evidence.

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