"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
-Carl Sagan
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"We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.“
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"If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?"
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"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous."
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"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
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