Christianity may be good and Satanism evil. Under the Constitution, however, both are neutral. This is an important, but difficult, concept for many law enforcement officers to accept. They are paid to uphold the penal code, not the Ten Commandments … The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don’t like that statement, but few can argue with it.


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I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering ...
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It is said that men may not be the dreams of the Gods, but rather that the Gods are the dreams of me...
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The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us ...
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The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ours...
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Ann Druyan suggests an experiment: Look back again at the pale blue dot of the preceding chapter. Ta...
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We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal's 'Pensees' and read, 'I am...
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We have swept through all of the planets in the solar system, from Mercury to Neptune, in a historic...
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The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they ...
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We tend to hear much more about the splendors returned than the ships that brought them or the shipw...
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For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Ri...
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Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little...
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Let's see if I got this right," she would say to herself. "I've taken an inert gas that's in the air...
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Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever valu...
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I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promi...
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But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - ar...
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Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for res...
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At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an op...
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God doesn't exist, someone who has compelling evidence aga...
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Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is ...
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most sk...
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Once we lose our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Univer...
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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As science advances, there seems to be less and less for God to do. It's a big universe, of course, ...
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We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum st...
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It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men...
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If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world ...
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Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid ...
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Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.
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We inhabit a universe where atoms are made in the centers of stars; where each second a thousand sun...
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soi...
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The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what...
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One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands...
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immen...
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a ...
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered lo...
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The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
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we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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