I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
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A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.
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We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.
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The Information Age offers much to mankind, and I would like to think that we will rise to the challenges it presents. But it is vital to remember that information, in the sense of raw data, is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.
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Clarke's Law of Revolutionary Ideas: Every revolutionary idea, in science, politics, art, or whatever, seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases:
1. It's completely impossible: don't waste my time.
2. It's possible, but it's not worth doing.
3. I said it was a good idea all along.
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Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
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The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life, much less intelligence, beyond this Earth does not surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive, we may be like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime.
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The hypothesis you refer to as God, though not disprovable by logic alone, is unnecessary for the following reason.
If you assume that the universe can be quote explained unquote as the creation of an entity known as God, he must obviously be of a higher degree of organization than his product. Thus you have more than doubled the size of the original problem, and have taken the first step on a diverging infinite regress. William of Ockham pointed out as recently as your fourteenth century that entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily. I cannot therefore understand why this debate continues.
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As I approach my 90th birthday, my friends are asking how it feels like, to have completed 90 orbits around the Sun. Well, I actually don't feel a day older than 89!
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I now spend a good part of my day dreaming of times past, present and future. As I try to survive on 15 hours sleep a day, I have plenty of time to enjoy vivid dreams. Being completely wheel-chaired doesn't stop my mind from roaming the universe, on the contrary!
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