Quotes About Anthropic Principle

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Peter Watts

#6. 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

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

Paul Davies

#8. 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

#9. Hope shines like a candle in the darkness. Keep the flame alive.

Debasish Mridha

#10. I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.

F. Sionil Jose

#11. The sands of time cannot be stopped. Years pass whether we will them or not ... but we can remember. What has been lost may yet live in memories.

Christopher Paolini

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

Robert J. Sawyer

#13. I've been taught from a young age to want to be the best driver ... It was about being the best driver and not the best girl.

Danica Patrick

#14. Macroeconomic adjustment programmes are tailor-made to the situation of the country concerned and no models or templates are used.

Jeroen Dijsselbloem

#15. I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House.

Louise Mensch

#16. There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist - it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.

Kara Walker