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A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

by Lawrence M. Krauss

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Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution

by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)

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The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Bassel’s Quotes

“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.”
― P.B. Medawar

tags: evolution, science, thinking

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“إن الله يقيم الدولة العادلة وإن كانت كافرة ولا يقيم الدولة الظالمة وإن كانت مسلمة،”
― ابن تيمية

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“Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's hopes to the ultimate fate of the cosmos anyway? Of course we don't; not if we are sane. Our lives are ruled by all sorts of closer, warmer, human ambitions and perceptions.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

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