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- Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important differences, it seems…
- Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has…
- For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A universe in which…
- Because men, compared to male chimps, have such relatively small testicles (large testicles indicate a species where many males mate, one after the other, with…
- Every time you look up at the sky, every one of those points of light is a reminder that fusion power is extractable from hydrogen…
- I don't know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you'll be the first to find out.
- The understanding of the intent of the artist which I can achieve when high sometimes carries over to when I’m down. This is one of…
- One trend that bothers me is the glorification of stupidity, that the media is reassuring people it's alright not to know anything. That to me…
- When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different…
- One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.
- Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so that teamwork prevails:…
- Looking at fires when high, by the way, especially through one of those prism kaleidoscopes which image their surroundings, is an extraordinarily moving and beautiful…
- Scientists can routinely predict a solar eclipse, to the minute, a millennium in advance. You can go to the witch doctor to lift the spell…
- A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We…
- What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny…
- What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is…
- We seem, these days, much more willing to recognize the perils before us than we were even a decade ago. The newly recognized dangers threaten…
- Centuries hence, when current social and political problems may seem as remote as the problems of the Thirty Years' War are to us, our age…
- I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. It's hard to talk about the…
- The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our…
- The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.
- There are lots of ways to communicate what we know, but few ways to communicate what we feel. Music is one way to communicate emotions.
- We are one species. We are starstuff.
- One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of course do not…
- I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time ... when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very…
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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