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“The search for some ultimate significance in the universe, and in our little transient role in it, the compulsion to learn, to know, to find the truth, to answer questions and solve problems - these constitute the essence of an aware existence, the central core of intelligent life.”

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Author:Dale Rex Coman

“I say the Intelligent Design-evolution debate misses the point. It trivializes God and it trivializes science. The universe is like the hand of God. The world is God's body.”

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Author:Michael Dowd

“If there is continuity in the universe, it is fitting that there should be intelligent beings without bodies which are called angels.”

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Book:God and Intelligence in Modern Philosophy: A Critical Study in the Light of the Philosophy of Saint Thomas

Source: God and Intelligence in Modern Philosophy: A Critical Study in the Light of the Philosophy of Saint Thomas

“The one reasonable goal of social life was affirmed to be the creation of a world of awakened, of sensitive, intelligent, and mutually understanding personalities, banded together for the common purpose of exploring the universe and developing the human spirit's manifold potentialities.”

Source: Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels

“I'm anticlerical, not antireligion. If somebody believes there is God, I'm not interested in trying to persuade that person there is no intelligent design to the universe. Where I become interested and wake up is about the temporal power of religion, things like prayer in schools, or Catholic-secular hospital mergers.”

“It must be a very dour and pessimistic astronomer indeed who seriously doubts that there must be countless numbers of intelligent civilizations scattered throughout the universe on other planets which are orbiting around other stars. An attitude which asserts that man is the only intelligent life form in the universe is intolerably arrogant today ... anyone who holds such an opinion today is, fortunately for those who like to see some progress in human conceptions, something of an intellectual freak equivalent to a believer in the Flat Earth Theory.”

“Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?”

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Author:Lily Tomlin

“I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.”

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Author:Gary Hamel

“Although we will hate and fight the machines, we will be supplanted anyway, and rightly so, for the intelligent machines to which we will give birth may, better than we, carry on the striving toward the goal of understanding and using the Universe, climbing to heights we ourselves could never aspire to.”

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Book:Past, Present, and Future

Source: Past, Present, and Future

“My only hope is that every other alien civilization isn't doing exactly what we are doing because then everybody would be listening, nobody would be receiving, and we would collectively conclude that there is no other intelligent life in the universe.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I cannot significantly improve on the assertion that it simply is proper for us, as intelligent members of the universe, to try to look after our fellow creatures, and evil for us to do otherwise.”

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Book:Last Animals at the Zoo: How Mass Extinction Can Be Stopped

Source: Last Animals at the Zoo: How Mass Extinction Can Be Stopped

“What we call creation science makes no reference to the Bible. It says there are two possible explanations for the origin of the universe and living things: theistic, supernatural creation by an intelligent being, or nontheistic, mechanistic evolutionary theory that posits no goal and no purpose in the evolutionary process. We just happen to be here.”

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Author:Duane Gish

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”

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Author:Stephen Hawking

“Ayurveda is the science of life and it has a very basic, simple kind of approach, which is that we are part of the universe and the universe is intelligent and the human body is part of the cosmic body, and the human mind is part of the cosmic mind, and the atom and the universe are exactly the same thing, but with different form, and the more we are in touch with this deeper reality, from where everything comes, the more we will be able to heal ourselves and at the same time heal our planet.”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

“The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation: The doctrine of a supreme, intelligent sovereign of the universe, I believe to be the great essential principle of all morality, and consequently of all civilization.”

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Book:The John Adams papers

Source: The John Adams papers