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“Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
“...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.”
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“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
“Plants don't have a brain because they are not going anywhere.”
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“Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
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