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Guilt sometimes comes from stupid places.

I think “majority” is one of my least favorite words. It’s so often used to justify bad decisions.

Fear is a prison, and only by facing it can we truly be free.

An animal doesn’t need to develop curiosity and intelligence if it has no problems that need solving.

After a short flurry of national and international concern over the “death of the Sun,” the human race settled down to solving the insoluble problem in the best way that they knew—they ignored it and hoped it would go away.

We fear what we don’t know.

Withholding the truth is lying.

Many of history’s murderers have staked out the moral high ground, killing for love of confession or country, or in the name of social equality.

“Are you willing to allow other the same right to their beliefs?”

“If their beliefs don’t hurt others and, when I feel the need, I am allowed to call them stupid in my mind, then yes.”

“Is it better to give or receive?”

“They’re the same,” I said. “One can’t exist without the other. But if you keep giving without receiving, you’re a fool.”

Just because something is not alive, does not mean that it is dead. You have to be alive first to be dead.

Finally, in one fateful trillionth of a second, a nuclear compound was formed that had two very important properties: it was stable, and it could make a copy of itself.

Life had come to the crust of the neutron star.