We Are Made Of Starstuff.

For A Long Time The Human Instinct To Understand Was Thwarted By Facile Religious Explanations.

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I Maintain There Is Much More Wonder In Science Than In Pseudoscience. And In Addition, To Whatever Measure This Term Has Any Meaning, Science Has The Additional Virtue, And It Is Not An Inconsiderable One, Of Being True.

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