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“The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.”
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“Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.”
― The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist
― The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist
“I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime”
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“We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.”
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“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”
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Urs’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Urs’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
11,115 books
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1,692 friends
3,127 books
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4,985 friends
22 books
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579 friends
20 books
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2 friends
225 books
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2 friends
0 books
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1 friend
2,944 books
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919 friends
1,753 books
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597 friends
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