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I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime

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I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don’t.

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There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.

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We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.

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• Education

The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.

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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

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• Life

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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For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

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• Inspirational

... 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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• Knowledge

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

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I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?

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• Inspirational

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

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• Wisdom

Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults.

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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

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• Success

God is an ever-receding pocket of? scientific ignorance.

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