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Eric Chaisson



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Average rating: 3.97 · 928 ratings · 81 reviews · 74 distinct works • Similar authors
Astronomy: A Beginner's Gui...
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Astronomy Today
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Cosmic Evolution: The Rise ...
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Epic of Evolution: Seven Ag...
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Cosmic dawn: The origins of...
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Relatively Speaking
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3.89 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions
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The Life Era: Cosmic Select...
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“... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...”
― Eric Chaisson, Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos
tags: chance, determinism, nature, necessity, randomness
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“The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures.”
― Eric Chaisson, Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos
tags: chance, determinism, nature, necessity, randomness
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“Science is agnostic when it comes to God - not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly - just agnostic.”
― Eric Chaisson, Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos
tags: agnosticism, atheism, belief, religion, science
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