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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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The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.

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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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All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions.

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The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.

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The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer (although not with a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament)

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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.

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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. Information distilled over 4 billion years of biological evolution. Incidentally, all the organisms on the Earth are made essentially of that stuff. An eyedropper full of that liquid could be used to make a caterpillar or a petunia if only we knew how to put the components together.

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My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology, and nothing more.

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A still more glorious dawn awaits / not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise / a morning filled with 400 billion suns / the rising of the milky way

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As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky.

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In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.

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The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.

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Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs — in time, in space, and in potential — the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors.

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We are, each of us, a multitude. Within us is a little universe.

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Looking at fires when high, by the way, especially through one of those prism kaleidoscopes which image their surroundings, is an extraordinarily moving and beautiful experience.

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There is never only ONE of anything in nature.

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We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs.

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When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

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You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see things as clearly as you do. We have to guard carefully against it.

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