"Or in other words, why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands?"
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"We shouldn't be surprised that conditions in the universe are suitable for life, but this is not evidence that the universe was designed to allow for life. We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics."
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"Now, radical forward thinking is offering hope for the future: Replacement body parts to order. A team of scientists in California believe that if you can design them on a computer, you should be able to print them out."
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"We won't know for a few years."
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"If we ever do find a complete theory of the universe, it would be a great triumph of human reason but it wouldn't leave much for us to do. We need an intellectual challenge."
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"I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition."
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"We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe"
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"Science will win because it works."
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"A lot of prizes have been awarded for showing the universe is not as simple as we might have thought."
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"Perhaps we could write code to optimize code, then run that code through the code optimizer?"
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"Maybe my variety is due to bad absorption of vitamins."
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"If I knew what was going to happen in ten years I would do it now. I just follow my nose."
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"The Universe in a Nutshell"
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"If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not."
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"The moment you understand the whole Universe, is the moment you slightly begin to understand the way God's mind works"
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"As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control. It was a natural next step to want to know how the universe works."
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"The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let's hope we can avoid dropping the basket until we have spread the load."
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""Sooner or later disasters such as an asteroid collision or a nuclear war could wipe us all out, But once we spread out into space and establish independent colonies, our future should be safe.""
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"There is nothing bigger or older than the universe."
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"Only a very few would allow creatures like us to exist. Thus our presence selects out from this vast array only those universes that are compatible with our existence. Although we are puny and insignificant on the scale of the cosmos, this makes us in a sense the lords of creation."
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