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To a physicist like me, life looks to be little short of magic: all those dumb molecules conspiring to achieve such clever things!
The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence (2010)
The brain is the medium of expression of the human mind. Similarly the entire physical universe would be the medium of expression of the mind of a natural God.
God and the New Physics (1983)
Matter as such has been demoted from its central role, to be replaced by concepts such as organization, complexity and information.
The Matter Myth: Towards 21st-century Science (1991)
The scientific quest is a journey into the unknown.
The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World (1992)
The overall organization of the universe has suggested to many a modern astronomer an element of design.
I cannot believe that our existence in this universe is a mere quirk of fate, an accident of history, an incidental blip in the great cosmic drama. Our involvement is too intimate.
The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World (1992)
I'm using this term demonic cut by analogy with the Cartesian cut...
The Demon in the Machine (2019)
The thing that separates life from non-life is information.
The Demon in the Machine (2019)
For the weak force... universality of coupling strength is not readily apparent. Hadronic weak forces are very different in nature from leptonic weak processes.
Forces of Nature (1986)
What is remarkable is that human beings are actually able to carry out this code-breaking operation, that the human mind has the necessary intellectual equipment for us to "unlock the secrets of nature"...
The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World (1992)
The laws of nature are rigged not only in favor of complexity, or just in favor of life, but also in favor of mind. To put it dramatically, it implies that mind is written into the laws of nature in a fundamental way.
If ever you want an example of going from physics to biology, it's the origin of the genetic code.
The Demon in the Machine (2019)
It's now commonplace to have an informational term entering into the fundamental laws of physics as a source of free energy.
The Demon in the Machine (2019)
For thousands of years, human beings have contemplated the world about them and asked the great questions of existence... Today... many of these great questions are part of science, and some scientists claim they may be on the verge of providing answers.
Human beings have always been struck by the complex harmony and intricate organization of the physical world. The march of the heavenly bodies across the sky, the rhythms of the seasons, the pattern of a snowflake, the myriads of living creatures so well adapted to their environment – all these things seem too well arranged to be a mindless accident.
The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World (1992)
So in effect, information serves as a fuel, and this leads to the whole concept of information engines. Engines that will run on information power...
The Demon in the Machine (2019)
Science, it is usually believed, helps us to build a picture of objective reality – the world 'out there'. With the advent of the quantum theory, that very reality appears to have crumbled, to be replaced by something so revolutionary and bizarre that its consequences have not yet been properly faced.
That the universe has organized its own self-awareness – is for me powerful evidence that there is 'something going on' behind it all. The impression of design is overwhelming. Science may explain all the processes whereby the universe evolves its own destiny, but that still leaves room for there to be a meaning behind existence.
The Cosmic Blueprint: New Discoveries In Nature's Creative Ability To Order Universe (1988)
The really amazing thing is not that life on Earth is balanced on a knife-edge, but that the entire universe is balanced on a knife-edge. You see, even if you dismiss mankind as just a mere hiccup in the great scheme of things, the fact remains that the entire universe seems unreasonably suited to the existence of life — almost contrived — you might say a "put-up job".
We lack any sort of device that can... detect life. We don't have a life meter. ...We don't have a general purpose life meter that can detect life as we don't know it.
The Demon in the Machine (2019)