“That enormously complex biological interactions are so flawlessly coordinated as to result in such obvious manifestations as human thought or the electrical activity that dries the heartbeat is as exciting to me -- actually more exciting -- than such phenomena were when I was a small boy and thought them divinely (in the supernatural sense) driven.”
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“Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory.”
“Understanding is ignoring the details”
“Is the universe actually infinite, or just very large? Will it last forever or just a long time?”