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Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others? That’s who we are! We’re not who we say we are, we’re not who we want to be - we are the sum of the influence and impact that we have, in our lives, on others.
I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgments.
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.
Even through your hardest days, remember we are all made of stardust.
Ask courageous questions.Do not be satisfied with superficial answers.Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge, without exception, to intense skeptical scrutiny.Be aware of human fallibility.Cherish your species and your planet.
The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe
Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
To live in the hearts of others is to never die in those we leave behind.
We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make up the Milky Way Galaxy which is one of billions of other galaxies which make up a universe which may be one of a very large number, perhaps an infinite number, of other universes. That is a perspective on human life and our culture that is well worth pondering.
Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.