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Nature, as we are so often reminded, is under no obligation to make things simple just for our convenience.

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Like shipwrecked mariners clinging to the rocks in a wild sea, to make sense of the world we search desperately for things that are unchanging.

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Every breath you take contains atoms forged in the blistering furnaces deep inside stars. Every flower you pick contains atoms blasted into space by stellar explosions that blazed brighter than a billion suns. Every book you read contains atoms blown across unimaginable gulfs of space and time by the wind between the stars.

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Why should the universe be constructed in such a way that atoms acquire the ability to be curious about themselves.

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Marcus Chown

Marcus Chown

Born: 1959 (age 66)
Bio: Marcus Chown is a science writer, journalist and broadcaster, currently cosmology consultant for New Scientist magazine.
Known for:
  1. The magic furnace (1999)

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