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- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
- Darkness
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.
- Finding Yourself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
- People
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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
- Live
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
- Far
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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.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
- Far
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
- Long
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If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
- Basic Understanding
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
- Extinction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
- Dark
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Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
The professed function of the nuclear weapons on each side is to prevent the other side from using their nuclear weapons. If that's all it is, then we've gotta as: how many nuclear weapons do you need to do that?
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000!
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal's 'Pensees' and read, 'I am the great silent spaces between worlds.'
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have children, and develop a rich social, sexual, and intellectual life, but we know almost nothing about our surroundings.
- Fiat
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- Nov 07, 2020
We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.
- Evolution
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- Nov 07, 2020