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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.

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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 universe forces those who live in it to understand it.

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Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe.

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I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.

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How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder?

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I don't know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you'll be the first to find out.

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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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The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

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We are, in a way, temporary ambulatory repositories for our nucleic acids. This does not deny our humanity; it does not prevent us from pursuing the good, the true and the beautiful. But it would be a great mistake to ignore where we have come from in our attempt to determine where we are going.

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Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light.

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It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.

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

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we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers

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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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Is mankind alone in the universe? Or are there somewhere other intelligent beings looking up into their night sky from very different worlds and asking the same kind of question?

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

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A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our survival. It is our birthright. When, through indifference, inattention, incompetence, or fear of skepticism, we discourage children from science, we are disenfranchisin g them, taking from them the tools needed to manage their future.

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There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity

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The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their civilized incarnations - in the same time and place, Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. . . . Science thrives on, indeed requires, the free exchange of ideas; its values are antithetical to secrecy. Science holds to no special vantage points or privileged positions. Both science and democracy encourage unconventional opinions and vigorous debate. Both demand adequate reason, coherent argument, rigorous standards of evidence and honesty.

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