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• Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
  -- Carl Saga...
• Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves, but to the Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we sprang.
  -- Carl Saga...
• Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
  -- Carl Sagan (1934- ) quoted in Time 20 Oct. 1980...
• A circle is a line which meets its other end without ending.
• Without vigorous, farsighted and continuing encouragement of scientific research, we are in a position of eating our seed co
  we may fend off starvation for one more winter, but we have removed the last hope of surviving the following winter....
• We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
  We have arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology....
• Therefore with the same necessity with which the stone falls to earth
  he hungry wolf buries its fangs in the flesh of its prey without the possibility of the knowledge that it itself is the destroyed as well as the destroyer....
• Yet God hath not only granted these faculties, by which we may bear every event without being depressed or broken by i
  but like a good prince and a true father, hath placed their exercise above restraint, compulsion, or hindrance, and wholly without our own control....
• Happiness is as a butterfly which when pursued is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you.
  -- Nathaniel Hawthorne...