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"In very different ways, the possibility that the universe is teeming with life, and the opposite possibility that we are totally alone, are equally exciting. Either way, the urge to know more about the universe seems to me irresistible, and I cannot imagine that anybody of truly poetic sensibility could disagree."
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"Expect to wonder to find wonder."
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"Wonder at everything and ask, why?Love everything and wonder, why?"
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"I've discovered why you fascinate - you keep the mystery and as Carlyle noted, Wonder is the basis of worship..."
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"...because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world allows the possibility of Truth."
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"Once you realize life is magic, you will never look upon the world with dimmed eyes again."
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"It is as if we need to be reminded of convention in order properly to appreciate the wonder of being unguarded..."
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"We are perishing for lack of wonder, not for lack of wonders."
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"However, this is too harmonious, grand, and overwhelming a universe to believe it all on accident."
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"Don't settle for pap - our thoughts wander through eternity - experience the wonder of being alive..."
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"There are over a million types of fish in the sea as there are flowers in all of the world's gardens. There are at least a million different types of minerals as there are species of birds or monkeys. The possible configurations of lifeforms that could be created from a single atom are infinite. There are at least a billion people on this earth, and no two faces look the same. It is very arrogant to assume that we have seen all of God's miracles."
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"It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics."
Science
"Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?"
Thought
"But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience."
Experience
"If the second dinosaur to the left of the tall cycad tree had not happened to sneeze and thereby fail to catch the tiny, shrew-like ancestor of all the mammals, we should none of us be here."
Science
"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."
Religion
"The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence and non-existence on an even footing."
Philosophy
"More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding."
Religion
"People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design."
Philosophy
"Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree."
Spiritual
"The arms race between [predators] and [prey] is asymmetric, in which success on either side is felt as failure by the other side, but the nature of the success and failure on the two sides is very different. The two sides are 'trying' to do very different things. [Predators] are trying to eat [prey]. [Prey] are not trying to eat [predators], they are trying to avoid being eaten by [predators].From an evolutionary point of view asymmetric arms races are more [likely] to generate highly complex weapons systems."
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