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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

Carl Sagan

The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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Awful Place Pretty Science Space Universe Waste
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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desperatel Determination Preference Prejudice Puzzle True Truth Want Work
I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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Assume Come Consideration Danger Extreme Ourselves Outside Problem Solution
Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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Cosmic Enough Explore Investigation Nature Ocean Ready Sail Shore Stars Wander
Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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Accommodation Admire Enough Faith God Strive Truth Universe
We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Help Life Look Science
One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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Adult Children Gift Reading Society Spring
People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Believe Deep People Reason Stupidity
You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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Chemical Science Worth
An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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Against Atheist Certain Evidence Existence God
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Cosmic Deep Science
Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Distance Greatness Ignorance Mistake Perspective
There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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Delicate Forbidden Matter Scare Science Sensitive Truth
A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Compose Dust Galaxy Gas Stars Sun
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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Book Dead Glance Hear Perhaps Reading Time Voice Voyage
If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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Book Content Finish Library Lifetime Percent Reading Time Trick Week

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