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I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an invisible, di...more

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Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we've got seven other p...more

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While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me.

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Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments and yo...more

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The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light ele...more

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The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

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If everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionary and brilliant. … If you got to spend every ...more

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Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe ...more

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I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, ca...more

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I fear living a life where I could have accomplished something and didn't. That's what I fear. I don't fear death.

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The urge to want some bit of information to be true often clouds our ability to assess why that information may be false.

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Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the pow...more

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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

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If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the...more

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There are a lot of things you can do in space, and space essentially is unlimited resources. We are climbing over ourselves here looking for the next ...more