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Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

“No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.”

Book:Time Enough for Love

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Time Enough for Love

Robert A. Heinlein's 'Time Enough for Love' is a science fiction novel that delves into complex themes such as the nature of love, the passage of time, and the evolution of humanity. The story follows Lazarus Long, a character who lives for centuries, and his experiences with various forms of love throughout his long life. more

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Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein was an American science fiction writer, hailed as a master in the field of science fiction. His works have had a profound impact on the development of science fiction literature, with classics such as 'Starship Troopers' and 'The Time Machine'. more

“One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that the present expansion is a relic of the violence of this explosion. This big bang idea seemed to me to be unsatisfactory even before detailed examination showed that it leads to serious difficulties.”

Life Ideas Bigs Science Universe Violence Serious Huge Difficulty Expansion Finite Bangs Explosions Examination Relics Nomenclature

Book:The nature of the universe

Source: The nature of the universe

“Perhaps the best reason for regarding mathematics as an art is not so much that it affords an outlet for creative activity as that it provides spiritual values. It puts man in touch with the highest aspirations and lofiest goals. It offers intellectual delight and the exultation of resolving the mysteries of the universe.”

Source: Mathematics for the Nonmathematician

“Religious leaders and men of science have the same ideals; they want to understand and explain the universe of which they are part; they both earnestly desire to solve, if a solution be ever possible, that great riddle: Why are we here?”

Ifs Men Want Science Desire Universe Religious Leader Solutions Ideals Solve Riddle Religious Leaders

Book:Concerning man's origin: being the presidential address given at the meeting of the British association held in Leeds on August 31, 1927, and recent essays on Darwinian subjects

Source: Concerning man's origin: being the presidential address given at the meeting of the British association held in Leeds on August 31, 1927, and recent essays on Darwinian subjects

“Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.”

Thinking Way Trying Science Universe Knowledge Seeing Accounts Mechanism Testing

Author:Isaac Asimov

“Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous universe ruled by chance and impersonal rules, empty and uncaring, ungraspable and vertiginous. How comfortable to turn instead to a small world, only a few thousand years old, and under God's personal; and immediate care; a world in which you are His peculiar concern.”