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Do you believe in UFOs?' I'm always struck by how the question is phrased, the suggestion that this is a matter of belief and not of evidence. I'm almost never asked, 'How good is the evidence that UFOs are alien spaceships?

Lost somewhere between the eternity of time and immensity of space is our tiny planetary home

Sakharov in the Cold War year 1968 boldly wrote—in a book published in the West and widely distributed in samizdat in the USSR—"Freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of peoples by the mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorships

This new project of hers was in experimental theology. But so is all of science she thought.

The cognitive abilities of chimpanzees force us, I think, to raise searching questions about the boundaries of the community of beings to which special ethical considerations are due.

Many harebrained interpretations were also widely available, especially in weekly newspapers.

Los demonios venden; los bromistas son aburridos y de mal gusto.

Science may have evicted ghosts and witches from our beliefs

In a novel of ideas, the ideas have to work.

democracy can also be subverted more thoroughly through the products of science than any pre-industrial demagogue ever dreamed.

I'm not really so hard & cynical after all - in fact I'm still dangerously soft.

I can't guarantee that a lobotomy would stop her— babbling!!

I cannot imagine any witch of a woman casting a spell over you.

The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This is terrifying news.

Sylvia Day is the undisputed mistress of tender, erotic romance. Her books are a luxury every woman deserves.

If you and every person in the county mailed me an envelope of five to ten dollars, I think I could rehabilitate the sheep.

Through the door came a being of intense vivacity, impeccable sartorial integrity, and intermittent intelligibility.

He raised his sunglasses and saw a young woman in an impossibly brief dress with an improbably welcoming smile

By TERRY BROOKS ONE HUMMING TUNELESSLY, THE RAGPICKER WALKED THE barren, empty wasteland in the aftermath of the rainstorm.

The spiderlike body arched and turned on the lip of the bottle like some feeding insect.

Phryne tried reasoning with him, but he talked right over her attempts at an explanation, fixated on his belief that she had not only disobeyed him but lied to him, as well.

Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization, because only civilization creates peace.

Fool, you are less a prince and more a clown to speak like this!

Again he trailed off into ominous silence.