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.

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• 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

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• La sintonía fina del universo proporciona evidencia prima facie de diseño deísta.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Science, Design, Tuning

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

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• Los seres humanos de todas las sociedades en todos los periodos de la historia creen que sus ideas sobre la naturaleza del mundo real son las más seguras, y que sus ideas sobre la religión, la ética y la justicia son las más ilustradas. Como nosotros, piensan que el conocimiento final está por fin al alcance de la mano. Al igual que nosotros, se compadecen de los pueblos de épocas anteriores por no conocer los hechos verdaderos. El ser humano se compadece indefectiblemente de sus antepasados por ser tan ignorantes y olvida que sus descendientes se compadecerán de ellos por la misma razón.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Real, Believe, Knowledge

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• '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

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• 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

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• 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

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