"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. The bamboozle…"

"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some effort to grasp. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be easy to do what the truth demands. But none of that mak…"

"We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands."

"The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together."

"We are the local embodiment of a cosmos grown to self-awareness."