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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

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