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Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Hans Jonas

Hans Jonas

Born: May 10, 1903
Died: February 5, 1993 (aged 89)
Bio: Hans Jonas was a German-born philosopher, from 1955 to 1976 the Alvin Johnson Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York City.
Known for:
  1. Das Prinzip Verantwortung (1979)
  2. The gnostic religion (1958)
  3. Mortality and morality

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