Edward Robert Harrison Quotes

• Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Light, People, Enough Time

  Smithsonian Magazine, December 1995.

  47 Copy quote

• Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God - the design argument of Paley - updated and refurbished. The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design. Take your choice: blind chance that requires multitudes of universes or design that requires only one.... Many scientists, when they admit their views, incline toward the teleological or design argument.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Science, Views, Choices

  70 Copy quote

• The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Science, Design, Tuning

  Edward Robert Harrison (1986). “Masks of the universe”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

  9 Copy quote

• Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of the real world are the most secure, and that their ideas on religion, ethics and justice are the most enlightened. Like us, they think that final knowledge is at last within reach. Like us, they pity the people in earlier ages for not knowing the true facts. Unfailingly, human beings pity their ancestors for being so ignorant and forget that their descendants will pity them for the same reason.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Real, Believe, Knowledge

  9 Copy quote

• 'By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and the void,' announced Democritus. The universe consists only of atoms and the void; all else is opinion and illusion. If the soul exists, it also consists of atoms.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Science, Reality, Color

  Edward Robert Harrison (1986). “Masks of the universe”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

  7 Copy quote

• The stars begin to fade like guttering candles and are snuffed out one by one. Out in the depths of space the great celestial cities, the galaxies cluttered with the memorabilia of ages, are gradually dying. Tens of billions of years pass in the growing darkness ... of a universe condemned to become a galactic graveyard.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Stars, Years, Cities

  11 Copy quote

• Why are the heavens not filled with light? Why is the universe plunged into darkness?

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Light, Heaven, Darkness

  Edward Robert Harrison (1987). “Darkness at night: a riddle of the universe”, Harvard Univ Pr

  6 Copy quote

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin