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Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.
We love our planet Earth. We should - it is our home, and there's no place like home. There can't ever be a better place than Earth.
All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.
I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity.
There is a lurking fear that some things are not “meant" to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make.
It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.
A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger still.
It's sometimes easier to reject strong evidence than to admit that we've been wrong, this is information about ourselves worth having.
We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.
Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.
I still hear some people say that science takes the wonder out of life. Those people are utterly wrong. Science takes us to the wonder
Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. Theyre about telling stories.
Three-fourths of the universe is hydrogen, and oxygen is incredibly abundant, too. So H2O is something you can find nearly everywhere.
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.
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
We live in an in-between universe where things change all right...but according to patterns, rules, or as we call them, laws of nature.
The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.
No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.
Let us secure not such books as people want, but books just above their wants, and they will reach up to take what is put out for them.
Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. They're about telling stories.
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.
The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this cosmos in which we float, like a mote of dust in the morning sky.
In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.
We do not know why we are born into the world, but we can try to find out what sort of a world it is - at least in its physical aspects.
It is no more likely that our world has evolved out of chaos than that a hurricane, blowing through a junk yard, should create a Boeing.
The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spiderweb of the micrometer.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
I believe that in every person is a kind of circuit which resonates to intellectual discovery-and the idea is to make that resonance work
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
SETI is a mirror, a mirror that can show ourselves from an extraordinary perspective and can help to trivialize the differences among us.
A few years later the Naval Academy was founded at Annapolis, and a similar course was pursued to provide it with a corps of instructors.
Philosophically, the notion of a beginning of the present order of Nature is repugnant to me ... I should like to find a genuine loophole.
Some racists still reject the plain testimony written in the DNA that all the races are not only human but nearly indistinguishable. . . .
I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It's up to you.
If there is life, then I believe we should do nothing to disturb that life. Mars then, belongs to the Martians, even if they are microbes.
When I was young, the old regarded me as an outrageous young fellow, and now that I'm old the young regard me as an outrageous old fellow.
In any attempt to bridge the domains of experience belonging to the spiritual and physical sides of nature, time occupies the key position.
It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
A still more glorious dawn awaits / not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise / a morning filled with 400 billion suns / the rising of the milky way
Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.
An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.
The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds.
Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish. It makes sense to revere the Sun and the stars, for we are their children.
Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.
That planet has a considerable but moderate atmosphere. So that the inhabitants probably enjoy a situation in many respects similar to ours.
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 rock.
The fact that so little of the findings of modern science is prefigured in Scripture to my mind casts further doubt on it divine inspiration.
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.
You mustn't think of the Universe as a wilderness. It hasn't been that for billions of years," he said. "Think of it more as... ..cultivated.