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The human brain is by far the most complex physical object known to us in the entire cosmos.
Owen Gingerich / Professor
Brain
Cosmos
Humans
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Fred Hoyle and I differ on lots of questions, but on this we agree: a common sense and satisfying interpretation of our world suggests the designing hand of a superintelligence.
Owen Gingerich / Professor
Common Sense
Hands
Our World
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Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound questions and who can probe the nature of the universe itself.
Owen Gingerich / Professor
Home
Profound
Self
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Stuart Clark's The Sun Kings is undoubtedly the most gripping and brilliant popular-science history account that I have ever read. It is informative, accurate, and relevant. Clark's ability to write so vividly makes me seethe with jealousy.
Owen Gingerich / Professor
Kings
Sun
Writing
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Nevertheless, just as I believe that the Book of Scripture illumines the pathway to God, so I believe that the Book of Nature, with its astonishing details-the blade of grass, the Conus cedonulli, or the resonance levels of the carbon atom-also suggest a God of purpose and a God of design. And I think my belief makes me no less a scientist.
Owen Gingerich / Professor
Believe
Book
Thinking
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