It is my view that the simplest explanation is there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization. There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that, I am extremely grateful.

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I don't fear God- I fear His believers.

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Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.

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It is all right to make mistakes; nothing is perfect because with perfection, we would not exist.

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The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date. Only a few people can keep up with the rapidly advancing frontier of knowledge, and they have to devote their whole time to it and specialize in a small area. The rest of the population has little idea of the advances that are being made or the excitement they are generating.

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Aristarchus suspected that this was the case and believed that the stars we see in the night sky are actually nothing more than distant suns.

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[If] there were such a God, I would like to ask however did he think of anything as complicated as M-theory in eleven dimensions.

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We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things.

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We should seek the greatest value of our action.

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associates and collaborators were Roger Penrose

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