I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.
Dr. Carl Sagan
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.
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It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree
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If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
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We are star-stuff
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think its forever.
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We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has stopped. Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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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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