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There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

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Wheeler hopes that we can discover, within the context of physics, a principle that will enable the universe to come into existence "of its own accord. " In his search for such a theory, he remarks: "No guiding principle would seem more powerful than the requirement that it should provide the universe with a way to come into being. " Wheeler likened this 'self-causing' universe to a self-excited circuit in electronics.

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Science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview. . . even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of faith the existence of a law-like order in nature that is at least in part comprehensible to us.

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

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Mathematics is universal. It's discovered by human beings, but the rules of mathematics are the same throughout the universe and the laws of the universe.

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If we're looking for intelligence in the universe I think everybody assumes that this has to start with life and so the question is: "How likely is it that there will be life elsewhere in the universe?"

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You've got to get away from the idea cancer is a disease to be cured. It's not a disease really. The cancer cell is your own body, your own cells, just misbehaving and going a bit wrong, and you don't have to cure cancer. You don't have to get rid of all those cells. Most people have cancer cells swirling around inside them all the time and mostly they don't do any harm, so what we want to do is prevent the cancer from gaining control. We just want to keep it in check for long enough that people die of something else.

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