"Science is a self-correcting process."

"We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands."

"Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light."

"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."

"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some effort to grasp. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be easy to do what the truth demands. But none of that mak…"