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Every time you look up at the sky, every one of those points of light is a reminder that fusion power is extractable from hydrogen and other light elements, and it is an everyday reality throughout the Milky Way Galaxy.

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.. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the 'Momentary' masters of a 'Fraction' of a 'Dot'

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Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.

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The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe come from?]

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I don't want to believe. I want to know.

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

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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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While our behavior is still significantly controlled by our genetic inheritance, we have, through our brains, a much richer opportunity to blaze new behavioral and cultural pathways on short timescales.

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There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

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The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.

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A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.

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Otherwise we don't run the government the government runs us

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The understanding of the intent of the artist which I can achieve when high sometimes carries over to when I’m down. This is one of many human frontiers which cannabis has helped me traverse.

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The open road still softly calls.

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Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.

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Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.

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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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Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of ignorance, of leaving government to the wolves. He taught that the country is safe only when the people rule.

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Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.

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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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