"It is hard to resist the impression that……" — Paul Davies
"It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in numbers, has been rather carefully thought out...The seemingly miraculous concurrence of these numerical values must remain the most compelling evidence for cosmic design."
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96 Quotes by Paul Davies
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It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion.
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There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all. . . It seems as…
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Wheeler hopes that we can discover, within the context of physics, a principle that will enable the universe to come…
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Until now, physical theories have been regarded as merely models with approximately describe the reality of nature. As the models…
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We might expect intelligent life and technological communities to have emerged in the universe billions of years ago. Given that…
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Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature.
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The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will…
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Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either…
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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
— Faith Baldwin
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Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are…
— William S. Burroughs
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Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be…
— Oswald Avery
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The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the…
— Robert Andrews Millikan
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"Pieces" almost always appear 'as parts' in whole processes. ... To sever a "'part" from the organized whole in which…
— Max Wertheimer
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That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen . . . . It moreover equally…
— James Madison
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Fashion is more about taste than money - you have to understand your body and tailor clothes to your needs;…
— Carmen Dell'Orefice
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Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is…
— Nick Nolte
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The world is what you make of it, friend. If it doesn’t fit, you make alterations.
— Linda Hunt
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How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks…
— Michel de Certeau
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As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable.…
— Michael Crichton
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