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

"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?"

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

"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."

"I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship."

"Science is only a Latin word for knowledge"