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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal's 'Pensees' and read, 'I am the great silent spaces between worlds.' "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience. "

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

" 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! "

" 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. "

" We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save. "

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

" 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. "

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

" We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. "

" 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? "

" Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out. "

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

" In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. "

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

" Today, we're still loaded down - and, to some extent, embarrassed - by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth. But we now have the opportunity to discover, for the first time, the way the universe is in fact constructed as opposed to how we would wish it to be constructed. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions. "