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

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Albert Einstein

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing. "

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

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

" 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? "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion. "

Stephen Hawking

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

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

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

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

" 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? "

Nuclear Weapons

" Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. "

Arthur M. Schlesinger

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

" 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! "