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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.

— Paul Davies

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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.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

Cary Grant Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)

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