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The world is my country, and science is my religion.
- Christian Huygens, 17th century Dutch astronomer

"Magnificent desolation." - Buzz Aldrin's description of the Moon (and perhaps outer space)

He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions.
- Carl Sagan's epitaph to astronomer Johannes Kepler

It is more important to stand up for rationality than it is to talk the infected out of their religion. WE ARE NOT EVANGELISTS for a religion. WE ARE RATIONALISTS who want our lives virus FREE!
Living true to ourselves is the greatest gift we can give our children and the world
DARREL W. RAY

Occasionally, I get a letter from someone who is in 'contact' with aliens. I am invited to ask them anything. And over the year's I've prepared a little list of questions. The aliens are very advanced remember. So I ask things like, 'Please provide a short proof of Fermat's Last Theorem'. I write out the simple theorem equation with the exponents. It's a simulating exercise to think of questions to which no human today knows the answers, but where a correct answer would be recognised as such. It's even more challenging to formulate such questions in fields other than mathematics. Perhaps we should hold a contest and collect the best responses in '10 Questions to Ask an Alien'.
- Carl Sagan, "The Demon Haunted World", p.95

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl SAGAN - COSMOS p. 4

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever.
Carl SAGAN - COSMOS p. 20

Jesus said: Become passers-by!
Gospel of Thomas, saying 42.

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