Anthropic Quotes

#1. Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to observe it. Antiparticle:

Stephen Hawking

#2. To say that Nature displays intelligence doesn't make you a Christian fundamentalist. Einstein said as much, and a fascinating theory called the anthropic principle has been seriously considered by Stephen Hawking, among others.

Deepak Chopra

#3. It is all but inevitable that we occupy a favoured location, one of the rare neighbourhoods where by-laws allow the emergence of intelligent life.' No anthropic principle needed.

Matt Ridley

#4. The anthropic principle is an unfortunate name as it implies something about humanity.

Paul Davies

#5. Our very existence imposes rules determining from where and at what time it is possible for us to observe the universe. That is, the fact of our being restricts the characteristics of the kind of environment in which we find ourselves. That principle is called the weak anthropic principle.

Stephen Hawking

#6. One reason I find anthropic reasoning troublesome is that no one yet knows what might be essential to any possible form of life or even to structures such as galaxies that might support it. I am not as confident as others seem to be that any form of life would be similar to ours.

Lisa Randall

#7. It's the anthropic principle's evil twin, he thought.

Peter Watts

#8. The rules of physics are, in some cases, suspiciously anthropic.

Charles Stross

#9. Earth's suitability for human life was no coincidence, much less an effect of the anthropic principle, but rather was an outcome of the long-term interaction between the biosphere and the natural environment,

Liu Cixin

#10. And the beauty of the anthropic principle is that it tells us, against all intuition, that a chemical model need only predict that life will arise on one planet in a billion billion to give us a good and entirely satisfying explanation for the presence of life here.

Richard Dawkins

#11. Paul grasped humor only imperfectly, but supposed he could see the absurdity of it from a human perspective. "Yes, and you are a very charming bipedal bladder of fluid," he said. "Nicest thing anyone's said to me all day!

Jim Cleaveland

#12. A true patriot does not confuse government with country. A patriot's loyalty is to his country, and loyalty to country requires holding government accountable.

Paul Craig Roberts

#13. It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.

Robert J. Sawyer

#14. I probably use my chef's knives more than any other tool in the kitchen. I'm not married to a particular brand, because they all work, they all have sharp blades.

Bobby Flay

#15. Joy to the world, the Lord is come / Let earth receive her King / Let every heart, prepare him room / And heaven and nature sing.

Isaac Watts

#16. We shouldn't deny the pain of what happens in our lives. We should just refuse to focus only on the valleys.

Charles R. Swindoll

#17. After his brother. He suddenly noticed that Ivan swayed

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#18. I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.

George Eliot

#19. I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how loose it was and how much fun it was in its looseness. And I was influenced a lot by that.

Daryl Hall

#20. I take my metal canister of tea off the shelf. It is my own mixture of dried lavender blossoms and lemon balm, harvested from my garden and hung in the storeroom to dry. Weed helped me hang these stalks, I think. His hands touched these tender leaves, just as they touch me.

Maryrose Wood

#21. We must intertwine business and ethics in a very fundamental way.

Robert Bruner

#22. Give me the goddamn names, Grace," Lucas said. "C'mon. Please. Talk to me. Save yourself." "Fuck you." - FORD CAME BACK, looked at Lucas, asked, "Get a name?" "Not unless it's 'Fuck you,'" Lucas said.

John Sandford

#23. What the heart feels today, the head will know tomorrow.

John Hegarty

#24. Most people out there are just trying to keep their job and provide for their family. If climate change is now a once-in-a-mortgage problem, and if food prices start to spike, people will pay attention.

David Titley