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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff
We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.
The visions we offer our children shape the future.
This oak tree and me, we're made of the same stuff.
All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.
Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others?
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.
You have to know the past to understand the present.
We are the children equally of the Sky and the Earth.
The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.
The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.
Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.
Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.
Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.
Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs.
Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
The universe forces those who live in it to understand it.
Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.
There is in this Universe much of what seems to be design.
We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos.
Otherwise we don't run the government the government runs us
Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.
Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation
The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths.
We are, each of us, a multitude. Within us is a little universe.
Science is a way of thinking that helps you not to fool yourself.
It means nothing to be open to a proposition we don't understand.
We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it
Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.
It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.
If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.
Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares.
Even through your hardest days, remember we are all made of stardust.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.