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I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to reflect, you have time to choose your words, to get your sentences exactly right. Whereas when you're being interviewed, say, you have to talk on the fly, you have to improvise, you can change sentences around, and they're not exactly right.

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Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk.

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I've always been very suspicious of the left-right dimension in politics.

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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

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We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.

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Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.

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Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.

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I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims.

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Segregation has no place in the education system.

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The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: March 26th, 1941

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