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I actually think the chances that we'll find E.T. are pretty good.
My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.
Events do not happen; they are just there, and we come across them.
The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it
Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.
It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.
For many years I have been a night watchman of the Milky Way galaxy.
It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.
If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.
Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.
Ultimately, we actually all belong to only one tribe, to Earthlings.
Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.
Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
Even through your hardest days, remember we are all made of stardust.
You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares.
It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.
God invented space so that not everything had to happen in Princeton.
We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.
Don't let anyone keep you down for silly reasons such as who you are.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.
Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers.
Just like people, stars can be important without being terribly bright.
I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.
We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.
To live in the hearts of others is to never die in those we leave behind.
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas.
It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.
I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.
I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939.
We can't understand the universe in any clear way without the supernatural.
Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory.
It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.
The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
It's important that everyone realizes how much scientists still don't know.
There is no space without aether, and no aether which does not occupy space.
So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.
Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want.
We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.