Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. - Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

"I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign."

"If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?"

"It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us."

"We make our purpose."

"If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?"