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• We have lingered long enough on the shores of the Cosmic Ocean. -- Carl Saga
• As long as there have been humans we have searched for our place in the cosmos.
  Where are we? 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....
• One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle.
  We're no longer interested in finding out the truth....
• Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves, but to the Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we sprang.
  -- Carl Saga...
• Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage.
  But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us -- and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along....
• 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....
• Gee, there must be hundreds of em! -- Carl Saga
• Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -- Carl Saga