Jim Al-Khalili Quotes

• Time doesn't flow at the same rate for everyone. You can change time. You can slow it down, you can speed it up.

  Jim Al-Khalili

  Flow, Speed, Rate

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• For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works.

  Jim Al-Khalili

  Thinking, Our World, Achievement

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• Si nos remontamos a todos esos eslabones de la cadena que han tenido que estar en su sitio para que yo esté aquí, las leyes de la probabilidad sostienen que mi propia existencia es milagrosa. Pero al cabo de unas décadas, menos de cien años, se disuelven y dejo de existir. Así que mientras están todos congregados y coordinados para crearme, entonces -y hablo en nombre de todos esos billones de átomos- debería aprovechar al máximo las cosas.

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  Atheist, Years, Law

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• However far apart we pull two entagled particles, they remain 'connected' through their common wavelength function. Their fates remain intertwined until a measurement is made on one of them, collapsing their common wavelength function.

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  Fate, Two, Wavelength

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• The difference between my beliefs and having a religious faith is that I am prepared to change my views in light of new evidence, but someone of a religious faith will just stick their fingers in the ears and say: 'I'm not listening, there's nothing you can say that will make me change my mind.

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  Religious, Light, Views

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• As the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone in my body.

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  Cristiana, Madre, Religiosa

  "It's time to herald the Arabic science that prefigured Darwin and Newton" by Jim Al-Khalili, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2008.

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• I find it more comfortable to say I'm an atheist, and for that I probably have someone like Dawkins to thank.

  Jim Al-Khalili

  Atheist, Comfortable

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• Mencionaré de pasada un ejemplo de regalo de los árabes que, por mi parte, agradezco bastante: el café, sobre todo porque en un principio estaba prohibido en Europa por ser una "bebida musulmana".

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  Coffee, Grateful, Europe

  Jim Al-Khalili (2010). “Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science”, p.330, Penguin UK

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• In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, and thus the official language of the vast Islamic Empire that, by the early eighth century CE, stretched from India to Spain.

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  Book, Islamic, Years

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