The wind whips through the canyons of the American Southwest, and there is no one to hear it but us - a reminder of the 40,000 generations of thinking men and women who preceded us, about whom we know almost nothing, upon whom our civilization is based.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality it is a profound source of spirituality.Carl Edward Sagan
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument my position is mistaken', and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen.
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A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.
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Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science.
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