Top 7 Quotes by Edward Robert Harrison

Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people.

Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people.

Light, People, Enough Time

Smithsonian Magazine, December 1995.

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

The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design.

Edward Robert Harrison

Science, Design, Tuning

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

Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of the real world are the most secure, and that their ideas on religion, ethics and justice are the most enlightened. Like us, they think that final knowledge is at last within reach. Like us, they pity the people in earlier ages for not knowing the true facts. Unfailingly, human beings pity their ancestors for being so ignorant and forget that their descendants will pity them for the same reason.

Edward Robert Harrison

Real, Believe, Knowledge

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

'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