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The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.

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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

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My parents were not scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily cohabiting modes of thought that are central to the scientific method.

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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.

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What an astonishing thing a book is.

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I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this cosmos in which we float, like a mote of dust in the morning sky.

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An organism at war with itself is doomed.

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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.

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Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness of all things. It conveys awe for the intricate and subtle way in which the universe is put together.

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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands. The loom of time and space works the most astonishing transformations of matter.

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Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs.

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Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition.

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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.

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In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If we wish courageously to pursue the question, we must, of course ask next where God comes from? And if we decide this to be unanswerable, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always existed?

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It seems madness to say, 'We're worried that they're going to become addicted to marijuana' -- there's no evidence whatever that it's an addictive drug, but even if it were, these people are dying, what are we saving them from?

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The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.

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For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.

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It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.

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Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

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