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There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immor...more

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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself

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

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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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It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

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The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

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We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum star in the remotest corner of an obscure galaxy. An...more

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The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in th...more

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The laws of nature cannot be randomly reshuffled at the cusps [of an oscillating universe]. If the universe has already gone through many oscillations...more

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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

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There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain laws and constants of nature are consistent with ...more

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The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way. We didn’t impose it on the U...more

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Except for hydrogen, all the atoms that make each of us up—the iron in our blood, the calcium in our bones, the carbon in our brains—were manufactured...more