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It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri, and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us - but with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses.

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If there is life, then I believe we should do nothing to disturb that life. Mars then, belongs to the Martians, even if they are microbes.

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When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different kinds; there's only one kind. It uses about fifty fundamental biological building blocks, organic molecules.

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An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.

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Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication, and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us --- and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.

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It means nothing to be open to a proposition we don't understand.

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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.

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We are all star stuff.

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

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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

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We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet, are up for grabs.

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So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least our galaxy, have been disappointed, progressively disappointed. The universe is not responsive to our ambitious expectations.

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Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else.

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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go

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

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We are made of star-stuff. Our bodies are made of star-stuff. There are pieces of star within us all.

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A single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence. . . . It is possible that the future of human civilization depends on the receipt of interstellar messages.

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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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Organic as a dandelion seed, [the ship of our imagination] will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts

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