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.

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If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us that we are the reason there is a Universe

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tuck

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology in which hardly anyone knows a

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

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    The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

    Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

    Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

    We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.

    We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.

    Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.

    Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.

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