“How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.”
― Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
― Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
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“The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.”
― Survivor
― Survivor
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
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