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I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so muc...more

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselve...more

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It will all stop someday, but not for billions of years. Many billions. Even the stars run down, you know. Entropy must increase.

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Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see.

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The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they under...more