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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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Sceptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
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The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.

Cosmos

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
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The brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good.
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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. This is a clear prescription for disaster.
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