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Thoughtful believers can take some consolation. Skepticism and discovery have freed them from the burden of having to defend their god as a footling, clumsy, straws-in-the-hair mad scientist.

"Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth."

"One lesson that we can draw from this possible end of life and intelligence in this universe is that we need to have some cosmic humility in our claims, even if such a thing is difficult for cosmologists."