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Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory. ”
In a way, cancer is so simple and so natural. The older you get, this is just one of the things that happens as the clock ticks. ”
I sold my Chevron. I sold my ConocoPhillips. I sold my Statoil. I sold my ENSCO. I sold my Pioneer Natural Resources. I sold everything. ”
I happen to love science... Scientists are all slightly mad. There is truth in the stereotype of the mad scientist. They are mad with curiosity. ”
The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream. ”
With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics. ”
When I would hear the rabbi tell about some miracle such as a bush whose leaves were shaking but there wasn't any wind, I would try to fit the miracle into the real world and explain it in terms of natural phenomena. ”
Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena. ”
Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories. ”
Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate. ”