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Football is a thinly disguised re-enactment of hunting; we played it before we were human.

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Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.

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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

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In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.

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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

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I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity.

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A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.

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If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.

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Which aspects of our nature will prevail is uncertain, particularly when our visions and prospects are bound to one small part of the small planet Earth. But up there in the Cosmos an inescapable perspective awaits.

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What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. ... Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

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Discussing the possibilities of extraterrestrial life: I would love it even if they were short, sullen, grumpy and sexually obsessed. But there just isn't any good evidence.

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Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species.

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[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science.

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Scientists can routinely predict a solar eclipse, to the minute, a millennium in advance. You can go to the witch doctor to lift the spell that causes your pernicious anaemia, or you can take Vitamin B12. If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. If you're interested in the sex of your unborn child, you can consult plumb-bob danglers all you want . . . but they'll be right, on average, only one time in two. If you want real accuracy . . . try amniocentesis and sonograms. Try science.

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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

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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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You have to know the past to understand the present.

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This oak tree and me, we're made of the same stuff.

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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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Because men, compared to male chimps, have such relatively small testicles (large testicles indicate a species where many males mate, one after the other, with the same female), we might guess that promiscuous societies were uncommon in the immediate human past.

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