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There is a report that says that kids who watch violent TV programs tend to be more violent when they grow up. But did the TV cause the violence, or do violent children preferentially enjoy watching violent programs?

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Science is a collaborative enterprise, spanning the generations. When it permits us to see the far side of some new horizon, we remember those who prepared the way - seeing for them also.

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We live in an in-between universe where things change all right...but according to patterns, rules, or as we call them, laws of nature.

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I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

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If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

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Nature does not always conform to our predispositions and preferences, to what we deem comfortable and easy to understand.

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If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something similar, something truly horrifying, a shared delusion, as adults?

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

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A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger still.

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Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.

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After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being - and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth.

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[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.

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In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

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Cleverly designed experiments are the key.

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We are made of starstuff.

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Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had argued that humanity was divided into Greeks and everybody else, whom he called barbarians and that the Greeks should keep themselves racially pure. He thought it was fitting for the Greeks to enslave other peoples. But Erathosthenes criticized Aristotle for his blind chauvinism, he believed there was good and bad in every nation.

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The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star.

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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

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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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