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The secret of our success on planet Earth is space. Lots of it. Our solar system is a tiny island of activity in an ocean of emptiness.

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Ultimate questions will always lie beyond the scope of empirical science as it is.

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The universe contains vastly more order than Earth-life could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally well ordered as our own.

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The belief that the underlying order of the world can be expressed in mathematical form lies at the very heart of science. So deep does this belief run that a branch of science is considered not to be properly understood until it can be cast in mathematics.

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If there is a purpose to the universe, and it achieves that purpose, then the universe must end, for its continued e xistence would be gratuitous and pointless. Conversely, if the universe endures forever, it is hard to i magine that there is any ultimate purpose to the universe at all.

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Conventional science attempts to explain things exactly, in terms of general principles. Any sort of explanation for the shape of a snowflake or a coastline could not be of this sort.

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Paul Davies

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Born: April 22, 1946 (age 77)
Bio: Paul Charles William Davies is an English physicist, writer and broadcaster, a professor at Arizona State University as well as the Director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science.
Known for:
  1. The Eerie Silence (2010)
  2. God and the New Physics (1984)
  3. The Mind of God (1992)
  4. Cosmic Jackpot (2007)
  5. About Time (1996)
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