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• Some physicists solve that problem of the necessity of finely tuned physical constants ... by invoking the anthropic principle, saying, well, here… — Richard Dawkins
• When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to… — John Polkinghorne
• To crank myself up I stood on a jack and ran myself up. I tightened myself like a bolt. I inserted myself… — Annie Dillard
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• We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity. It's the other way around. Effort can trump… — Malcolm Gladwell
• Maintain a state of balance between physical acts and inner serenity,like a lute whose strings are finely tuned. — Gautama Buddha
• When the finely tuned balance among the different parts of bodies breaks down, the individual creature can die. A cancerous tumor, for… — Neil Shubin
• The most remarkable feature about the magnitude scale was that it worked at all and that it could be extended on a… — Charles Francis Richter
• There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just… — Athol Fugard
• Except I'm aware that as a writer you can't get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.… — Alan Bradley
• It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into… — Alan Woods
• A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that. — Reggie Jackson

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