Poems List

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of star stuff.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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