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The others would then fall silent and she would continue about doped gallium arsenide detectors, or the ethanol content of the galactic cloud W-3. The...more

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We are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to self-awareness. We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized as...more

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The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer ...more

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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

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There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain laws and constants of nature are consistent with ...more

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From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, th...more

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If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. ... Choose science.

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If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make m...more

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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we a...more

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La prueba de ausencia no es prueba de ausencia

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The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

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The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

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Could we possible manage the next phase of human history without first dealing with this penchant for dehumanizing the adversary?

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It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the And...more

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Observation: I can’t see a thing.Conclusion: Dinosaurs.