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“Reading, for pleasure and knowledge, has always been, will always be one of my favorite things to do. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash)”
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“Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene
“Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.”
― Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
― Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
“What are the chances that this first and only smart species in the history of life on Earth has enough smarts to completely figure out how the universe works? Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair’s-width from us yet we can agree that no amount of tutelage will ever leave a chimp fluent in trigonometry. Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as humans are compared with chimpanzees. How much of the universe might they figure out?”
― Death by Black Hole
― Death by Black Hole
“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure science. —EDWIN P. HUBBLE (1889–1953), The Nature of Science”
― Death by Black Hole
― Death by Black Hole
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