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- Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went to the Moon…
- Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of…
- There are as many atoms in each molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. This is true for dogs, and…
- Stars die and reborn […] They get so hot that the nuclei of the atoms fuse together deep within them to make the oxygen we…
- If the Sun exploded, we wouldn't know about it for 8 minutes and 20 seconds. Light and gravity take that long to reach us. Then…
- If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.
- We are in the universe and the universe is in us.
- Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us.... Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as humans are compared…
- I want and need the artist to take me to new places, and the new place that Van Gogh took me not the sky as…
- Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to…
- Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?
- We are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That's kinda cool! That makes…
- The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.
- If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in the universe. Not…
- Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural…
- We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is…
- Space in general gave us GPS - that's not specifically NASA, but it's investments in space.
- Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and…
- The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric…
- There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand the world around…
- After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?
- While the Copernican principle comes with no guarantees that it will forever guide us to cosmic truths, it's worked quite well so far: not only…
- I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps…
- Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us.
- George Bush, within a week of this [the 9/11 attacks], in a speech, attempting to distinguish US from the Muslim fundamentalists, said Our God is…
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong