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How thoroughly the chimps and bonobos have erased the list of purported human distinctions!-self-awareness, language, ideas and their association, rea...more

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The school systems, it seems to me have a attitude of discouragement of asking fundamental questions, if a 5 or 6 year old asks why the moon is round ...more

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The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased...more

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There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered among us...more

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The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee.

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Might it be possible at some future time, when neurophysiology has advanced substantially, to reconstruct the memories or insight of someone long dead...more

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The dangers that we face are part of the process, now well underway, of the unification of the planet--in language, culture, science, and commerce. Th...more

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The others would then fall silent and she would continue about doped gallium arsenide detectors, or the ethanol content of the galactic cloud W-3. The...more

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Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid.

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We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to ma...more

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The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And what if all of you are wrong? It's a possibility,...more

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No question; language can free us of feeling, or almost. Maybe that's one of its functions - so we can understand the world without becoming entirely ...more

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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

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Adolf Hitler! Ken, it makes me furious. Forty million people die to defeat that megalomaniac, and he's the star of the first broadcast to another civi...more

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At the very moment that humans discovered the scale of the universe and found that their most unconstrained fancies were in fact dwarfed by the true d...more