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The Universe
David asked me about this quote, so I thought I’d put it here. Bill Bryson used it to introduce Part V of his book, A Short History of Nearly Everything.
Dad • Quotes • 09/02/04 • 2 commentsThe more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming.
- Freeman Dyson
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Patrick • 09/03/04 • 1:33 PM:Reminds me, tangentially, because this seems to be avoiding naming God, of a quote from Wolfgang Ernst Paul about Paul Dirac. Said Pauli: “If I understand Dirac correctly, his meaning is this: there is no God, and Dirac is his Prophet.”
Dad • 09/03/04 • 2:24 PM:Freeman Dyson is an emeritus professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His 1999 book, The Sun, the Genome and the Internet, discusses the question of whether modern technology could be used to narrow the gap between rich and poor rather than widen it. I might have to read that.
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