The Man Who Voyages Strange Seas Must

A Commonsense Interpretation Of The Facts Suggests That A Superintellect Has Monkeyed With Physics, As Well As With Chemistry And Biology, And That There Are No Blind Forces Worth Speaking About In Nature. The Numbers One Calculates From The Facts Seem To Me So Overwhelming As To Put This Conclusion Almost Beyond Question.

It Seems To Be A Characteristic Of All Great Work That It Creators Wear A Cloak Of Imprecision.

It Is Emphatically The Case That Life Could Not Arise Spontaneously In A Primeval Soup Of Any Kind.... Furthermore, No Geological Evidence Indicates An Organic Soup Ever Existed On This Planet. We May Therefore With Fairness Call This Scenario The Myth Of The Pre-biotic Soup.

I Do Not Believe That Anything Really Worthwhile Will Come Out Of The Exploration Of The Slag Heap That Constitutes The Surface Of The Moon...nobody Should Imagine That The Enormous Financial Budget Of Nasa Implies That Astronomy Is Now Well Supported.

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