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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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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.

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You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares.

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It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

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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?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” 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.

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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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Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others? That’s who we are! We’re not who we say we are, we’re not who we want to be - we are the sum of the influence and impact that we have, in our lives, on others.

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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.

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Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.

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

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We are made of starstuff.

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Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy.

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The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

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

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

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Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more to the world than was generally believed by our ancestors.

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My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology, and nothing more.

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The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.

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We are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible and which are not.

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