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• As long as there have been humans we have searched for our place in the cosmos.
  Where are we? Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe....
• We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star.
  But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special....
• In this galaxy, there's a mathematical probability of three million Earth-type planets.
  And in all of the universe, three million, million galaxies like this....
• My deeply held belief is that if a God of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence is provided by such a God.
  We would be unappreciative of that gift ... if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves....
• We live in a universe of Magick!
• we must counterpose the overwhelming judgment provided by consistent observations and inferences by the thousands.
  The earth is billions of years old and its living creatures are linked by ties of evolutionary descent....
• Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves, but to the Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we sprang.
  -- Carl Saga...
• Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars, blown about us by the wind, and drink the universe in a glass of rain.
  -- Ihab Hassa...