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Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

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In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.

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But down deep, at the molecular heart of life we're essentially identical to trees.

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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

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We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.

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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.

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UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable.

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We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.

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We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library

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We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

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The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

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[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science.

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Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?

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We are made of star-stuff. Our bodies are made of star-stuff. There are pieces of star within us all.

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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.

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Even through your hardest days, remember we are all made of stardust.

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We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West, Heaven is placid and fluffy, and Hell is like the inside of a volcano. In many stories, both realms are governed by dominance hierarchies headed by gods or devils. Monotheists talked about the king of kings. In every culture we imagined something like our own political system running the Universe. Few found the similarity suspicious.

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We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery.

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To read is to voyage through time.

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The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 10(14) neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness.

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