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The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears finely orchestrated.
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With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.
George Smoot
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I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.
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I always think of space-time as being the real substance of space, and the galaxies and the stars just like the foam on the ocean.
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People have contemplated the origin and evolution of the universe since before the time of Aristotle. Very recently, the era of speculation has given way to a time of science.
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There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing.
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Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.
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But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing — a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.
George Smoot