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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. Margaret Mead

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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents. Margaret Mead

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I am among those who think that science has great beauty. Marie Curie

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Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren. Mary Calderone

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I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity - these values mean a lot to me. Mohamed ElBaradei

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If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change. Nalini Nadkarni

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The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.' Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because when I look up in the universe, I know I'm small but I'm also big. I'm big because I'm connected to the universe, and the universe is connected to me. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we've got seven other planets. The sun? No, the sun is one of those dots in the night sky. The Milky Way? No, it's one of a hundred billion galaxies. And the universe - maybe it's countless other universes. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand the world around you. It's the laws of physics that allow us to say exactly what time the sun is going to rise. What time the eclipse is going to begin. What time the eclipse is going to end. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Hollywood are the ones created by Steven Spielberg - 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and 'E.T.,' for example. All other aliens are trying to suck our brains out. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium. Richard Dawkins

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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. Richard Dawkins

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Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to suggest that he might capriciously and arbitrarily violate them in order to walk on water, or turn water into wine as a cheap party trick at a wedding? Richard Dawkins

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Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility. Richard Dawkins

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Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake up, highly convincing. Most of us have had experiences which are verging on hallucination. It shows the power of the brain to knock up illusions. Richard Dawkins

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It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development. Rita Levi-Montalcini

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It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind. Sebastian Thrun

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