If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to … - Carl Sagan

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The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

Carl Sagan

If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.

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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.

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Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs — in time, in space, and in potential — the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors.

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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence. Because God can be relegated to remote times and places and to ultimate causes, we would have to know a great deal more about the universe than we do now to be sure that no such God exists. To be certain of the existence of God and to be certain of the nonexistence of God seem to me to be the confident extremes in a subject so riddled with doubt and uncertainty as to inspire very little confidence indeed.

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We were wanderers from the beginning.

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For us Catholics, John Paul II will be remembered as a traveling Pope. . . and we should also remember he preached world peace. When the United States invaded Iraq, for example, John Paul II said it was an illegal and immoral act.

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