Edward Robert Harrison Quotes

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Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people.

Edward Robert Harrison
'By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and the void,' announced Democritus. The universe consists only of atoms and the void; all else is opinion and illusion. If the soul exists, it also consists of atoms.

Edward Robert Harrison
Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God - the design argument of Paley - updated and refurbished. The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design. Take your choice: blind chance that requires multitudes of universes or design that requires only one.... Many scientists, when they admit their views, incline toward the teleological or design argument.

Edward Robert Harrison
Why are the heavens not filled with light? Why is the universe plunged into darkness?

Edward Robert Harrison
Only a cosmic jester could perpetrate eternity and infinity...

Edward Robert Harrison
What determines the design of a universe; is it the Universe, God, fortuity, or the human mind?

Edward Robert Harrison
We cannot doubt the existence of an ultimate reality. It is the Universe forever masked. We are part of an aspect of it, and the masks figured by us are the Universe observing and understanding itself from a human point of view. When we doubt the Universe we doubt ourselves. The Universe thinks, therefore it is.

Edward Robert Harrison
From the outset we must decide whether to use Universe or universe. This in not so trivial a matter as it might seem. We know of only one planet called Earth; similarly, we know of only one Universe. Surely then the proper word is Universe?

Edward Robert Harrison
In the impalpable and seemingly inconsequential entities of the quantum world, one finds the true music and magic of nature.

Edward Robert Harrison
Perhaps, in the ultimate and unimaginable chaos of a big bang, there lurks the cosmogenic genie who conjures and launches multitudes of universes, each equipped with its own unique laws and fundamental constants...

Edward Robert Harrison
But electrons do not move in clear-cut orbits like revolving celestial bodies. They dance, and the atom is a ballroom. The electrons perform stately waltzes, weave curvaceous tangos, jitter in spasmodic quicksteps, and rock to frenetic rhythms. They are waves dancing to a choreography composed differently for each kind of atom.

Edward Robert Harrison
If eternity is silliness, then infinity of space is sheer madness.

Edward Robert Harrison