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"I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir."
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"There are so many downsides to the message of looking for miracles."
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Personal Development
"Do not invest time and money into yourself to have others completely destroy it!"
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Personal Development
"Before you take that first curious, coerced, spiteful, or vengeful step forward, remember this: it's a thousand times easier to slip into a muddy pit than it is to climb out of one."
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Personal Development
"Anyone who takes the risk of leaving God for a while, risks his life in eternity."
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Personal Development
"Some gifts are baits! Watch out!"
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Personal Development
"The source of a river is narrow. If you could jump over it in a twinkle of an eye at the source, be sure to ponder before you jump over it at its mid or its estuary."
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Personal Development
"Two hands cut down a few trees, but one matchstick clears a forest."
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Personal Development
"He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung."
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Personal Development
"Be careful of those who would only be around you if they are doing better than you. People of such nature would likely become your worst enemies if you start doing better than them."
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"Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly."
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"We are all flawed and creatures of our times. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future?"
Ethics
"You squeeze the eyedropper, and a drop of pond water drips out onto the microscope stage. You look at the projected image. The drop is full of life - strange beings swimming, crawling, tumbling; high dramas of pursuit and escape, triumph and tragedy. This is a world populated by beings far more exotic than in any science fiction movie..."
Science
"Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense."
Science
"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."
History
"I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students."
Science
"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."
Earth
"There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right: it's the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process."
Science
"We are all star stuff."
Science
"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true."
Truth
"Evolution is adventitious and not foresighted. Only through the deaths of an immense number of slightly maladapted organisms are we, brains and all, here today."
Science
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