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We are a way of the universe knowing itself.
He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.
Wisdom lies in understanding our limitations.
Past time is finite, future time is infinite.
The average man. The emergence of the concept.
Something unknown is doing we don't know what.
My wonder button is being pushed all the time.
With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong.
I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration.
[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.
I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.
We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam
Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
Extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof.
You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
No greater problem is presented to the human mind.
The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff
We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.
Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go
That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
The real prize is finding something new out there.
The visions we offer our children shape the future.
All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.
This oak tree and me, we're made of the same stuff.
Theories crumble, but good observations never fade.
You have to know the past to understand the present.
Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others?
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.
The universe is still a place of mystery and wonder.
Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
We are the children equally of the Sky and the Earth.
Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.
The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.
Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.
This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.
Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
Nature never uses prime numbers. But mathematicians do.
The advance of science spares us from irrational dread.