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Star Trek speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow — it's not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans.

— Gene Roddenberry

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The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

Can A Smart Person Believe in God? (2004)

I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will — and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain.

In His Name (2010)

The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.

Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World (1992)

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

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