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“Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.”

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It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it…

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The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from…

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The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no…

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“Telepathy’ literally means to feel at a distance, just as ‘telephone’ is to hear at a distance and ‘television’ is to see at a…

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“On the scale of worlds—to say nothing of stars or galaxies—humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump…

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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,…

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In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams!

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“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion,…

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Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience.

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“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully…

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We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make…

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A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this…

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“Don’t waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they…

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Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces,…

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Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to…

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[Barack Obama] will spend long periods of time explaining to people why he won't use it. At the end of the explanation, nobody knows…

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When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock.…

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I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.

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I would make a genuinely terrible guide. I can't remember things. I would get half way through telling a story or explaining something and…

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We are ultimately at home in the world not through dominating or explaining or appreciating, but through caring and being cared for.

Milton Mayeroff

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It's very hard not to be condescending when you're explaining something to an idiot.

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People have to find ways of explaining the work.

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The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining…

Richard Dawkins

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Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of…

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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