Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others?

If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.

Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

Demon mean knowledge in Greek, especially about the material world. Science means knowledge in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further

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.

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. ... Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility.