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I’m struck again by the irony that spaceflight-conceived in the cauldron of nationalist rivalries and hatreds-brings with it a stunning transnational vision. You spend even a little time contemplating the Earth from orbit and the most deeply engrained nationalisms begin to erode. They seem the squabbles of mites on a plum.

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A general problem with much of Western theology in my view is that the god portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy much less of a universe.

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We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.

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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.

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The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work.

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We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged.

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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).

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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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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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There is a lurking fear that some things are not “meant" to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make.

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It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby to civilization.

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Clutching our crystals and religiously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in steep decline, unable to distinguish between what's true and what feels good, we slide, almost without noticing, into superstition and darkness.

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In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.

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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.

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The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.

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Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

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How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?

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If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out the way he wants? Why's he constantly repairing and complaining? No, there's one thing the Bible makes clear: The biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer. He's not good at design, he's not good at execution. He'd be out of business, if there was any competition.

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We have heard the rationales offered by the nuclear superpowers. We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the human species? Who speaks for Earth?

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Valid criticism does you a favor.

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