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" The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming. "
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Page 241
by Bill Bryson - 2003 - 560 pages
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Species of Origins: America's Search for a Creation Story

Karl Giberson, Donald A. Yerxa - History - 2002 - 292 pages
...remarkable autobiography Disturbing the Universe, where he wrote, in a memorable and oft-quoted phrase: "The more I examine the universe and study the details...find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming."10" Dyson is not a hard-nosed materialist and, in fact, criticizes his colleagues...
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Life Evolving: Molecules, Mind, and Meaning

Christian de Duve - Science - 2002 - 360 pages
...distinguished American physicist, British-born Freeman Dyson, writes in his 1979 Disturbing the Universe: "The more I examine the universe and study the details...find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming." Thus, two eminent scientists, equally knowledgeable about our present understanding...
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Creation and Last Things: At the Intersection of Theology and Science

Gregory S. Cootsona - Religion - 2002 - 124 pages
...Templeton Prize for the Advancement of Religion in 1999. He commented, "The more 1 examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence...the universe in some sense must have known we were coming."55 Indeed, Stephen Hawking, the man who holds Isaac Newton's former chair at Cambridge and...
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The Church of the Living God: A Reformed Perspective

Wallace M. Alston - Religion - 2002 - 164 pages
...empirical data. "The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture," says Freeman Dyson, "the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming." In response to which John Polkinghorne comments, "I cannot see what sense that could be other than...
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Proof?: Does God Exist?

Philip Gardiner - Philosophy - 2002 - 124 pages
...Physicist, Freeman Doyle, once said, 'The more I examine the universe and study the details of it's architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming." Professor Stephen Hawkins himself said, "It would be perfectly consistent with...
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God and Morality, Book 1

Christopher J. H. Wright - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 182 pages
...Mansukhani, Introduction to Sikhism, 1977] SS I do not feel like an alien in this universe. The more I study the details of its architecture the more evidence...universe in some sense must have known we were coming. 09 [Freeman Dyson, physicist, 12 December 1979] QS According to current thinking, there was a Big Bang...
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The Tests of Time: Readings in the Development of Physical Theory

Lisa M. Dolling, Arthur F. Gianelli, Glenn N. Statile - Science - 2003 - 762 pages
...enormous." Princeton physicist Freeman Dyson went further, and said: "The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence...universe in some sense must have known we were coming." This concatenation of coincidences required for our presence in this universe has been termed the anthropic...
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The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 5, The Modern Physical and ...

David C. Lindberg, Mary Jo Nye, Roy Porter, Ronald L. Numbers - Mathematics - 2003 - 714 pages
...Anthropic Cosmological Principle, p. vii. In 1979 Freeman Dyson said: "The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence...universe in some sense must have known we were coming." Quoted from Dyson's Disturbing the Universe by John Polkinghorne, The Faith of a Physicist: Reflections...
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Transcendence: Critical Realism and God

Margaret Scotford Archer, Andrew Collier, Douglas V. Porpora - Critical realism - 2004 - 196 pages
...the universe as 'a put-up job'. Similarly, in his autobiography, Nobel laureate Freeman Dyson writes, 'The more I examine the universe and study the details...find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.'1^ The current consensus among physicists is that the anthropic coincidences of...
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Science, Consciousness and Ultimate Reality

David Lorimer - Art - 2004 - 268 pages
...Freeman Dyson: I do not feel like an alien in this Universe. The more I examine the Universe and examine the details of its architecture, the more evidence...Universe in some sense must have known we were coming. This might be contrasted with the view of Heinz Pagels: The influence of the anthropic principle on...
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