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Physics and philosophy are at most a few thousand years old, but probably have lives of thousands of millions of years stretching away in front of them. They are only just beginning to get under way...

— James Jeans Physics and Philosophy (1942)

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And the substance out of which this bubble is blown, the soap-film, is empty space welded onto empty time.

The Mysterious Universe (1930)

From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.

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As discontinuity marched into the world of phenomena through one door, causality walked out through another.

Physics and Philosophy (1942)

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

The Mysterious Universe (1930)

The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.

The Stars in their Courses (1931)

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John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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