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If it takes a little myth and ritual to get us through a night that seems endless, who among us cannot sympathize and understand?

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It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in powe...more

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Billions of years from now our sun, then a distended red giant star, will have reduced Earth to a charred cinder. But the Voyager record will still be...more

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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost ...more

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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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The suppression of uncomfortable ideasmay be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no placein the endeavor of s...more

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We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it ...more

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The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by '...more

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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself

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Does trying to understand the universe at all betray a lack of humility? I believe it is true that humility is the only just response in a confrontati...more

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All that we have seen is something of a vast and intricate and lovely universe. There is no particular theological conclusion that comes out of an exe...more

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The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.

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

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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 h...more