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On Scientific Grounds This Big Bang Assumption Is Much Less The Palatable Of The Two. For It Is An Irrational Process That Cannot Be Described In Scientific Terms. . . . On Philosophical Grounds Too I Cannot See Any Good Reason For Preferring The Big Bang Idea. Indeed It Seems To Me In The Philosophical Sense To Be A Distinctly Unsatisfactory Notion, Since It Puts The Basic Assumption Out Of Sight Where It Can Never Be Challenged By A Direct Appeal To Observation.

There Are Many Ways Of Knocking Electrons Out Of Atoms. The Simplest Is To Rub Two Surfaces Together.

Perhaps The Most Majestic Feature Of Our Whole Existence Is That While Our Intelligences Are Powerful Enough To Penetrate Deeply Into The Evolution Of This Quite Incredible Universe, We Still Have Not The Smallest Clue To Our Own Fate.

I Have Always Thought It Curious That, While Most Scientists Claim To Eschew Religion, It Actually Dominates Their Thoughts More Than It Does The Clergy.

Science Today Is Locked Into Paradigms. Every Avenue Is Blocked By Beliefs That Are Wrong, And If You Try To Get Anything Published By A Journal Today, You Will Run Against A Paradigm And The Editors Will Turn It Down