6 Quotes by Tom B. Night about science
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There's a brute fact at the end of every chain of causality. Some are just harder to accept than others. If you keep asking 'why' in any domain you eventually arrive at something that just seems to be true about reality, at least insofar as we understand it.
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The story of Noah’s Ark, if you’re familiar, left out the part where the animal kingdom is repopulated entirely through rampant incest.
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The electrified gas creating these vibrant displays was a distinct and oft-forgotten fourth phase of matter—plasma—that comprised more of the universe than all but matter's fifth phase: dark.
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We stood on the shoulders of giants, but we fell off.
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A society’s technological dependence increases exponentially over time, as does its helplessness when deprived of it.
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With a fixed amount of matter and energy in the universe, everything is a zero-sum game on some level.
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