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" A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. "

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" All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. "

" I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star. "

" But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. "

" We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being. "

" The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite. "

" We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. "

" You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000! "

" For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. "

" Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I've had a lot of experience with that. "

" The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. "

" The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. "

" We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution. "

" Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. "

" Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing. "

" We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. "

" Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. "

" The professed function of the nuclear weapons on each side is to prevent the other side from using their nuclear weapons. If that's all it is, then we've gotta as: how many nuclear weapons do you need to do that? "

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" No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception. "

" If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. "

" I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students. "

" Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. "

" Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. "

" The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before. "

" Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. "

" The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. "

" For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. "

" If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? "

" Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. "

" Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. "

" There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce. "