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" The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. "

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

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

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

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

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

" Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. "

" Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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? "

" We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have children, and develop a rich social, sexual, and intellectual life, but we know almost nothing about our surroundings. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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! "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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