We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
From Carl Sagan
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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.
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