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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion is unrequited. Surveys suggest that some 95% of Americans are "scientifically illiterate." That's...the same fraction...of slaves who were illiterate before the Civil War.

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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course. Microbiology and meteorology now explain what only a few centuries ago was considered sufficient cause to burn women to death.

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At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.

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Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.

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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.

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We are the custodians of life's meaning.

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

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I went to the librarian and asked for a book about stars.... And the answer was stunning. It was that the Sun was a star but really close. The stars were suns, but so far away they were just little points of light.... The scale of the universe suddenly opened up to me. It was a kind of religious experience. There was a magnificence to it, a grandeur, a scale which has never left me. Never ever left me.

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Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation

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We are all star stuff.

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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.

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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

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In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.

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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.

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Every cell is a triumph of natural selection, and we’re made of trillions of cells. Within us, is a little universe.

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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.

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[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.

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My parents were not scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily cohabiting modes of thought that are central to the scientific method.

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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

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When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

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