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If the conditions are right, life is inevitable.
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Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.
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Are there things about the universe that will be forever beyond our grasp, but not beyond the grasp of some superior intelligence? Are there things about the universe that are, in principle, ungraspable by any mind, however superior?
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We're now so used to the idea that the Earth spins, rather than the Sun moves across the sky, it's hard for us to realize what a shattering mental revolution that must have been.
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This is the essential problem: the universe is far, far too interesting. Relativity and quantum mechanics appear to suggest that the universe should be a boring place. It should be dark, lethal and lifeless.
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Why is there something rather than nothing?
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Sound always has time embedded in it.
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I would suggest that our listening is the main way that we experience the flow of time from past to future.
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Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
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General relativity is unquestionably Einstein's masterpiece, a theory which reveals the workings of the universe at the grandest scales, capturing in one beautiful line of algebra everything from why apples fall from trees to the beginning of time and space.
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