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Words that make questions may not be questions at all.

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You don't take a dead cat to the vet. I mean you might, but why?

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I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos.

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That makes me want to grab people on the street and say, "have you heard this?"

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Ibn al-Haytham was the first person ever to set down the rules of science. -S01E05

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For your own safety, do not ever tell an astrophysicist, I hope all your stars are twinkling.

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The only people who still call hurricanes "acts of God" are the people who write insurance forms.

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That's the good thing about science: it's true whether or not you believe in it. That's why it works.

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Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.

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If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.

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My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.

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Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

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Halley shattered their monopoly, beating them at their own game. A game that no scientist had ever played before: Prophecy. -S01E03

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There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

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I am proud to be part of a species where a subset of its members willingly put their lives at risk to push the boundaries of our existence.

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I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religions document.

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After 50 years of television, there's no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.

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Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.

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I see the universe not as a collection of objects, theories and phenomena, but as a vast stage of actors driven by intricate twists of story line and plot.

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I'm a fan of the planets in any combination. When I was born, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, the Sun, and the Moon were all in the sky.

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Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when they confront things they don't understnd.

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Science works on the frontier between knowledge and ignorance. We're not afraid to admit what we don't know—there's no shame in that. The only shame is to pretend that we have all the answers.

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Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went to the Moon because it was the militaristically expedient thing to do.

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