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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.

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The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.

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What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival. Travel is broadening. It's time to hit the road again.

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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.

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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

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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.

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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

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There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.

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If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?

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There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.

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Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth.

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If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power.

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In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work.

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If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You become a crotchety old person convinced that nonsense is ruling the world. (There is, of course, much data to support you.) But every now and then, a new idea turns out to be on the mark, valid and wonderful. If you are too much in the habit of being skeptical about everything, you are going to miss or resent it, and either way you will be standing in the way of understanding and progress.

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Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.

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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

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Is mankind alone in the universe? Or are there somewhere other intelligent beings looking up into their night sky from very different worlds and asking the same kind of question?

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Discussing the possibilities of extraterrestrial life: I would love it even if they were short, sullen, grumpy and sexually obsessed. But there just isn't any good evidence.

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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.

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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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