166 Quotes by Paul Davies

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    Knowing there's a guy right there that's going to do all the dirty work and do anything he can definitely helps my game. I know it helps everyone else's, too.

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    The anthropic principle is an unfortunate name as it implies something about humanity.

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    That's been our bread and butter so, honestly, we're not that worried about it. They've got to guard us too, and we've got a lot of firepower.

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    No intelligent supervisor, no mystic force, no conscious controlling agency swings the molecules into place at the right time, chooses the appropriate players, closes the links, uncouples the partners, moves them on. The dance of life is spontaneous, self-sustaining, and self-creating.

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    We just couldn't put them away. They just hung around, hung around. We had the lead. We had to put them away.

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    Many billions of years will elapse before the smallest, youngest stars complete their nuclear burning and shrink into white dwarfs. But with slow, agonizing finality perpetual night will surely fall.

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    We have three games left (in the regular season) to give us some momentum going into March (Madness), which has always been our month.

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    Science is about explaining the world, and religion is about interpreting it. There shouldn't be any conflict.

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    Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly cosmic phenomenon. If so, there may well be sentient beings somewhere in the galaxy wondering, as do we, if they are not alone in the universe.

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