“According to the anthropic principle proponents, if the universal constants (e.g. gravitation, the strong force, etc.) were just a nose-hair off, the… — G.M. Jackson Copy Share Image
To say that Nature displays intelligence doesn't make you a Christian fundamentalist. Einstein said as much, and a fascinating theory called the… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
As we survey all the evidence, the thought insistently arises that some supernatural agency-or, rather, Agency-must be involved. Is it possible that… — George Greenstein Copy Share Image
“To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kind of life-form, everything… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
“In the discoveries of science the harmony of the spheres is also now the harmony of life. And as the eerie illumination… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, " This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The anthropic principle is an unfortunate name as it implies something about humanity. — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics. — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
“The unsolved problems of the physical world now seem even more formidable than those solved in the twentieth century. Though in application… — Gerald Holton Copy Share Image
There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all. . . It seems as though somebody… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“It is a strange fact, incidentally, that religious apologists love the anthropic principle. For some reason that makes no sense at all,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Some physicists solve that problem of the necessity of finely tuned physical constants ... by invoking the anthropic principle, saying, well, here… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
