166 Quotes by Paul Davies

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    If we knew we were not alone in the universe it would have a very, very deep impact on our worldview, on our understanding of our place in the universe.

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    Through our four-year career, we haven't had our best record against them. With the chance that this is the last time playing them, it feels pretty good going out this way.

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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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    We've still got it. We've just got to get that spark plug going into March. We've done it before.

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    When the three of us are on, we're really tough. There are not a lot of teams that can keep up with us when we play like that.

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    I don't think you can shut down all three of us. If it happens, somebody (else) has got to step up. We do have the personnel to step up and score for us.

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    Although gravity is by far the weakest force of nature, its insidious and cumulative action serves to determine the ultimate fate not only of individual astronomical objects but of the entire cosmos. The same remorseless attraction that crushes a star operates on a much grander scale on the universe as a whole.

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    Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and fixed thereafter. Inquiry into the origin and nature of the laws was not regarded as a proper part of science.

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