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

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

"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."

"I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star."

"Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out."

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."
Technology

"The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition."

"We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology."
Technology

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

"We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs."

"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."

"I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students."

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

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

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

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
Imagination

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

"In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
Nature

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

"For me, 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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