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- Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural.... In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills manufactured from pulverized…
- Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water.…
- A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were…
- How lucky we are to live in this time / the first moment in human history / when we are in fact visiting other worlds
- Quickly capping 363 oil well fires in a war zone is impossible. The fires would burn out of control until they put themselves out... The…
- A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics…
- There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.
- Demon mean knowledge in Greek, especially about the material world. Science means knowledge in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no…
- We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of…
- If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea,…
- Is mankind alone in the universe? Or are there somewhere other intelligent beings looking up into their night sky from very different worlds and asking…
- 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…
- A general problem with much of Western theology in my view is that the god portrayed is too small. It is a god of a…
- After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be…
- Organic as a dandelion seed, [the ship of our imagination] will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts
- Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more…
- Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works,…
- Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history.…
- Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
- Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
- 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…
- 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…
- we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers
- Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of…
- One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider this an overbroad…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- 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
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach