We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
From Carl Sagan
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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?
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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 others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
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