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• I'm often asked the question, "Do you think there is extraterrestrial intelligence?
  I give the standard arguments -- there are a lot of places out there, and use the word *billions*, and so on....
• I'm often asked the question, "Do you think there is extraterrestrial intelli- gence?
  I give the standard arguments -- there are a lot of places out there, and use the word *billions*, and so on....
• A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
  -- Carl Sagan, Contac...
• If science were explained to the average person in a way that is accessible and exciting, there would be no room for pseudoscience.
  But there is a kind of Gresham's Law by which in popular culture the bad science drives out the good....
• One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle.
  We're no longer interested in finding out the truth....
• I'm not a dictator. It's just that I have a grumpy face.
• Ro: "And what was all of that about?" Riker: "Oh, we were just discussing the.
  ..situation we're all in." Ro: "Mmm, good. Because I have a feeling that I used to be the jealous type....
• Another writer again agreed with all my generalities, but said that as an inveterate skeptic I have closed my mind to the truth.
  Most notably I have ignored the evidence for an Earth that is six thousand years old....
• Another writer again agreed with all my generalities, but said that as an inveterate skeptic I have closed my mind to the truth.
  Most notably I have ignored the evidence for an Earth that is six thousand years old....