"John David Barrow" Fellow of the Royal Society/FRS is an English (people)/English physical cosmology/cosmologist, theoretical physics/physicist, and mathematician. He is currently Research Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Barrow is also a writer of popular science and an amateur playwright.

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Many of the deepest and most engaging questions that we grapple with about the nature of the universe have their origins in our purely religious quest for meaning.

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If a `religion' is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Godel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one.

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This is a senior-group of ballplayers, and they have put in their dues as far as getting themselves prepared and it's good to sit and watch them play. They play good defense, they're so competitive at the plate, and they all want to hit it every time, and sometimes you have to push them up there when they're not having a good at-bat but most of the time they put the bat on the ball.

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That was a challenge to them. First Flight and any team that Ray coaches, they battle and stay in there with it, and we talked to told them when they came in that it was time for us to make a statement about ourselves, that we need to push a run or two across, of course we got several.

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There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience.

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People look to science to give them complete certainty, complete assurance, in the same way they look to religion.

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We ought to be just as concerned about protecting the right to vote today as we were in 1965. You don't have to look very far and wide to find examples of people playing with the rules, like right here in Georgia. There may be people who believe that it is no problem, but for people who live in those small communities [the act] can have a huge impact.

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I think the district belongs to the voters who live there and vote there, ... I'm too busy doing the job I was elected to do to focus too much on an election that's over a year away.

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