“We have developed from the geocentric cosmologies of Ptolemy and his forebears, through the heliocentric cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo, to the modern picture in which the earth is a medium-sized planet orbiting around an average star in the outer suburbs of an ordinary spiral galaxy, which is itself only one of about a million million galaxies in the observable universe.”
― A Brief History of Time
― A Brief History of Time
“Looking more closely at Earth’s atmospheric fingerprints, human biomarkers will also include sulfuric, carbonic, and nitric acids, and other components of smog from the burning of fossil fuels. If the curious aliens happen to be socially, culturally, and technologically more advanced than we are, then they will surely interpret these biomarkers as convincing evidence for the absence of intelligent life on Earth.”
― Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
― Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
“The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. —NDT”
― Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
― Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
“على المفكر أن يشتبك في نزاع مدى حياته مع الأوصياء على الرؤية المقدسة أو النص المقدس”
― Representations of the Intellectual
― Representations of the Intellectual
“Violence is the method of ignorance, the weapon of the weak. The strong of heart and brain need no violence, for they are irresistible in their consciousness of being right.”
― The ABC of Anarchism
― The ABC of Anarchism
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