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Bassel E. Helal
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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.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene
“We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
“The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene
“The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.”
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