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born 1952 United States

George Johnson (born January 20, 1952) is an American science writer and journalist, who writes a column for the New York Times.

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Even if you invoke vast geologic time, the series of fortuitous mutations leading to an eye, a kidney, or a brain seem too good to be true.

The cosmologist Fred Hoyle once warned Gell-Mann about the perils of fame. If you ever accomplish anything important in life, he said, the world will conspire to keep you from doing anything else again. Everyone wants you to give a speech, write an article, serve on a committee.

While Robert Welch opposed the United Nations for supposedly encouraging obeisance to the one-world conspiracy, McIntire's fundamentalists saw it as a "house of red Babel."

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Johnson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.