The Man Who Voyages Strange Seas Must

He Who Lives Among Dogs Must Learn To Pant.

Space Isn't Remote At All. It's Only An Hour's Drive Away If Your Car Could Go Straight Upwards.

Life Cannot Have Had A Random Beginning. ... The Trouble Is That There Are About Two Thousand Enzymes, And The Chance Of Obtaining Them All In A Random Trial Is Only One Part In 10 To The 40,000 Power, An Outrageously Small Probability That Could Not Be Faced Even If The Whole Universe Consisted Of Organic Soup.

A Junkyard Contains All The Bits And Pieces Of A Boeing 747, Dismembered And In Disarray. A Whirlwind Happens To Blow Through The Yard. What Is The Chance That After Its Passage A Fully Assembled 747, Ready To Fly, Will Be Found Standing There? So Small As To Be Negligible, Even If A Tornado Were To Blow Through Enough Junkyards To Fill The Whole Universe.

On Scientific Grounds This Big Bang Assumption Is Much Less The Palatable Of The Two. For It Is An Irrational Process That Cannot Be Described In Scientific Terms. . . . On Philosophical Grounds Too I Cannot See Any Good Reason For Preferring The Big Bang Idea. Indeed It Seems To Me In The Philosophical Sense To Be A Distinctly Unsatisfactory Notion, Since It Puts The Basic Assumption Out Of Sight Where It Can Never Be Challenged By A Direct Appeal To Observation.